Protesters smash windows and set Tesla ablaze in anti-G7 march in Geneva

Protesters in Geneva set fire to a Tesla and smashed the windows of a bank as they protested against the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit in Evian-Les-Bains, France.

The March was largely peaceful, with up to 7,000 people attending. police confiscated knives and Pyrotechnic devices. Demonstrators said they came to protest against the G7 as a symbol of concentrated political and economic power. Last week, Tesla owner Elon Musk became the world's first Trillionaire, Reigniting concerns about inequality.

The June 15-17 G7 summit in Evian-Les-Bains, on the shore of Lake Geneva, will bring together the leaders of France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, alongside the European Union. Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are set to dominate the agenda, while leaders will seek to avoid a clash with Trump as he seeks to finalize a framework peace deal with Iran. Protests have been common at G7 gatherings over the years, with many demonstrators using the Summits to decry capitalism, globalization, climate change and inequality.

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1. usnews - Protesters Smash Windows and Set Tesla Ablaze in Anti-G7 March in Geneva
2. thestarmy - Protesters smash windows and set Tesla ablaze in anti-G7 march in Geneva

New Amazon AI search turns words into shoppable images

Amazon has launched a new search feature that creates AI-generated images in real-time as you type inside the Amazon shopping App.

The idea is to describe what you see in your head, watch the image change with your words and tap the version that looks closest to what you want. From there, Amazon shows visually similar products you can actually shop.

The new feature appears in the search suggestions area of its shopping App for us customers.

It is rolling out on iOS and Android, starting with apparel and home, where looks carry a lot of weight.

Amazon says more categories will be added over time. Visual details can make or break a purchase. A "blue chair" may give you thousands of results. A "blue velvet accent chair with gold legs" gets closer. Add "curved back" or "Tufted seat," and the AI image can shift as your description gets sharper.

Instead of forcing you to know the right design term, Amazon lets you describe the look.

Then the App turns that description into a visual Cue.

The best use case here involves those Hard-To-Describe purchases. Furniture, clothing, accessories and decor often depend on texture, shape, pattern and colour. Search has always handled exact terms pretty well. Type a brand name or model number, and you usually get somewhere useful.

The problem starts when you know the Vibe but not the vocabulary.

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1. foxnews - New Amazon AI search turns words into shoppable images

China's universities cut 12,000 'obsolete' degrees amid race to embrace AI era

China's universities are undergoing a massive Reshuffling of their academic offerings as part of a drive to better align higher education with the nation's development goals.

The sweeping campaign comes as China races to become a global leader in a slew of Hi-Tech "future industries" and solve a severe graduate jobs crisis, which has left millions of young people struggling to find work. Between 2021 and 2025, China's higher education institutions revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programmes while introducing 10,200 new ones, meaning that more than 30% of the nation's University programmes underwent adjustments, according to Ministry of Education data cited by Xinhua.

The cuts have been heavily concentrated in arts, humanities, foreign languages and management - fields that are increasingly deemed outdated or Oversaturated in China, where more than 16% of young people are unemployed, and the job market is being rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence.

Many of the new programmes, meanwhile, are closely aligned with Beijing's economic development goals.

Nine universities have added new majors in embodied intelligence, which dovetails with a national drive to speed up the integration of next-generation AI into the real economy.

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1. bangkokpost - China's universities cut 12,000 'obsolete' degrees amid race to embrace AI era

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