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Union is demanding better safety standards for workers and passengers after two collisions this week killed 44Spain’s largest train drivers’ union has called a three-day nationwide strike to demand measures to guarantee the safety of rail workers and passengers after two deadly crashes this week killed at least 44 people, including two drivers.At least 43 people died and dozens more were injured after two trains collided on Sunday near the town of Adamuz, in the Córdoba province in Andalucía. Two days later, a driver was killed and 37 people were injured when a train was derailed by the collapse of a retaining wall near Gelida in Catalonia. Continue reading...

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Greater Manchester mayor said to have ‘zero’ chance of NEC selection, but public fuss may just embarrass No 10 enoughIf Andy Burnham has a road back to parliament to challenge Keir Starmer as Labour leader, it is a road with 6ft-deep potholes. With the right vehicle, it may be possible – but there are points at which any brave traveller might think about turning back.For Burnham to run in Andrew Gwynne’s seat of Gorton and Denton, he would first have to stand down as mayor of Greater Manchester. This in itself is no small decision for a seat he may not get selected to fight. He would potentially cost the authority millions in running a mayoral byelection – and the party a significant sum to fight it. Continue reading...

LinkedIn cofounder Reid HoffmanDominik Bindl/Getty ImagesLinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says most companies are thinking about AI adoption the wrong way.Instead of focusing on pilot projects, he says the real wins come from automating everyday work.Hoffman says AI should start with unglamorous tasks like meetings, notes, and coordination.Big companies are busy hiring chief AI officers and setting up tiger teams to pilot agentic products.However, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says this overlooks where automation actually pays off — in the "unglamorous layer" of day-to-day work.Speaking with AI engineer Parth Patil on his "Possible" podcast, Hoffman said a company's AI transformation involves employees "being able to talk to each other about it and do collective learning.""If people feel they'll get punished or judged for using AI, they become what Ethan Mollick calls 'secret cyborgs,' who quietly speed up their own work while the organization learns nothing," Hoffman wrote in a LinkedIn post.Mollick, an associate professor at Wharton, researches the effects of AI on work, entrepreneurship, and education.Companies have been ramping up investments in AI to boost efficiency and keep up with the AI race.Goldman Sachs, for example, said it spent roughly $6 billion on tech last year — a figure CEO David Solomon said he wished was higher.David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs.Stefano Guidi/Getty ImagesA CIO survey from RBC Capital in December found 90% of respondents said their organizations plan to spend more on AI in 2026.Many big companies are trying to integrate new technology by running pilot schemes with a small, specialist group.Hoffman wrote on LinkedIn that they then expect "transformation to magically spread"."Unfortunately for that strategy, AI lives at the workflow level, and the people closest to the work know where the friction actually is," he said. Hoffman said automation should start at the coordination layer. Think meetings, note-taking, and tools that source company knowledge."The winners will be companies that build the muscle of day-to-day use early enough for the gains to compound," said Hoffman in an X post."Start learning now, or watch the advantage slip away," he added.Read the original article on Business Insider