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Skilled labour gap: Walmart steps up training to build in-house technicians; US companies widen push to fix trade shortages

As the pool of skilled tradespeople continues to shrink in the US, Walmart is moving to strengthen its in-house workforce to keep its vast operations running — from conveyor belts and refrigeration systems to electrical networks and basic infrastructure at stores and distribution centres, AP reported.The world’s largest retailer and biggest private employer has revamped…

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Amazon sends message to engineers on in-house coding tool Kiro; says: We do not plan to…

Amazon has ordered its software engineers to stop adopting third-party AI coding tools and pivot exclusively to Kiro, its proprietary development system, in a strategic push to close the gap with rivals OpenAI and Google, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The directive affects popular competing products including OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code,…

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