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Irish Independent
3 days ago
- Irish Independent
Dublin commuters call for ‘escalation' as service failures on S8 route continue
This news comes five months after the transport Minister promised a 'detailed review of the problem'. The S8, which connects Kingswood Avenue to Dún Laoghaire and passes through major employment zones like Sandyford and Leopardstown, has once again come under scrutiny. Commuters on the route, operated by Go-Ahead Ireland, say issues have worsened in recent weeks, with buses vanishing from timetables and real-time tracking proving useless. One regular user said the situation has now become 'untenable'. 'Daily delays are leaving passengers late for work and stranded without reliable transport home,' they said. 'It is clear that the issue is escalating, and we are approaching the point where wider intervention is necessary.' They recalled six incidents this week alone where buses did not show up, were cancelled without notice or were significantly delayed. Commuters are calling for 'immediate and visible steps' to resolve the failures on the route. In a statement, Go Ahead Ireland it both 'acknowledges and sincerely apologises for any service disruptions', and said it is actively recruiting both drivers and mechanics. In February, the minister acknowledged rising public frustration over 'ghost buses' across several Go-Ahead-operated routes, including the S8. At the time, he said the National Transport Authority (NTA) was taking the issue 'very seriously' and that additional resources were being allocated to bus operators. However, passengers and local councillors say the problems persist. Back in April, Go-Ahead Ireland claimed the S8 route was operating at 98pc of its scheduled kilometres, and that performance had 'significantly improved' since the beginning of 2024. One commuter says that even if 98pc of kilometres are being covered, it doesn't mean the actual timetable is being followed. 'What does that 98pc figure actually mean for me at a bus stop at 7am or 7pm, when the bus I need to get to work or home just doesn't arrive?' Social media posts about 'phantom' or vanished S8 services have been ongoing for months. Several commuters have questioned whether enough drivers are available to maintain the route, particularly during off-peak and evening times. The S8, which replaced previous routes as part of the BusConnects redesign, provides a direct link between the southwest suburbs and major employment hubs in Sandyford and Leopardstown. But without consistent service, passengers say the route is 'failing in its basic purpose'. Go-Ahead Ireland (GAI) said it 'can confirm there have been service disruptions on the S8 route'. 'These disruptions resulted from a combination of factors including traffic congestion, fleet availability, and operational challenges,' they said. 'GAI is actively recruiting both drivers and mechanics. Recently, 10 mechanics from outside of Ireland have been recruited and are due to join the team in the coming months. 'On 14 July, 2025, the 06.45am service from Dún Laoghaire Station to Kingswood Avenue serviced Foxrock on time at 07.02. The stop was also serviced at 06.47 and at 07.19. The 19.00 service from Kingswood Avenue also operated on time. 'We acknowledge and sincerely apologise for any service disruptions, whether within or outside of our control, that affect our passengers.' A spokesperson for the National Transport Authority added that it understands the frustration 'caused by cancellations and overcrowding'. 'We are actively working with the operator, Go-Ahead Ireland, to address these challenges,' they said.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Vox Media Workers Ratify New 3-Year Collective Bargaining Agreement With WGA East, Successfully Recognizing ‘Thrillist' & ‘The Dodo'
Workers at Vox Media represented by the Writers Guild of America East have officially ratified their first union contract, and details of the agreement have now been publicly shared. The 250-member unit voted unanimously to approve the three-year collective bargaining agreement, the union said Friday morning. More from Deadline Producer Scott Budnick Details How Hollywood Got California Lawmakers To Agree On Film & TV Tax Credit Program Expansion California Legislators Approve $750M Funding For Film & TV Tax Credit Program WGA East Ratifies First Union Contract With Nonfiction Producer Story Syndicate Nearly 2 Years After Organizing Workers The WGA East had been fighting to bring all Vox Media workers across various verticals under one union contract, which they said the company had been resisting, prompting the talks to grow contentious. The two sides narrowly avoided a strike by securing a tentative deal just over two weeks ago — and it looks like the union got what it wanted. Members working at PopSugar, The Dodo and Thrillist will be covered under this collective bargaining agreement. Those from Thrillist and The Dodo will also receive backpay from April 2024 and May 2024, respectively, per the 2024 Vox Media Union contract wage increases, the union said Friday. The Vox Media Union also includes the editorial staff at The Verge, Eater, Punch, SB Nation, and Vox Media Podcast Network. In a statement Friday, the negotiating committee said it is 'so proud to have fought and won this contract that betters the lives of all of our members.' In addition, the contract also secures protections against generative AI and use of digital replicas, as well as a newly designed layoff process that includes two weeks of paid non-working notice, plus a minimum of 12 weeks of severance. See more of the contract details below. Guaranteed general wage increases: Year 1: 5% for salaries under $106K, 4% for salaries over $106k; Years 2 & 3: 3.25% for salaries under $106K, 2.75% for salaries over $106k; A new salary floor of $70,000 for overtime exempt employees and $68,000 for overtime eligible employees; Protections from Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI): No layoffs solely from the use or implementation of GAI; Any GAI generated material will go through standard editorial review processes, and the use of any GAI generated material will include the public disclosure of use of such tools; Reasonable advance notice of actual implementation of any new tool or system that will meaningfully impact employees; Employees may decline to be credited on any content where GAI was used; Protections against use of digital replicas; A new layoff process that will involve two weeks of paid non-working notice, plus a minimum of 12 weeks of severance; Maintains unlimited PTO policy, with the encouragement to take at least 25 days off per year (up from 20 days); 12 bereavement/pregnancy loss days (up from 10) In addition to Vox Media, the WGA East also represents several other outlets via its Online Media Sector including the Bustle Digital Group, Civic News Group, CNET, Committee to Protect Journalists, Fast Company, Future PLC, Gizmodo Media Group, Hearst Magazines, HuffPost, Inc., Jewish Currents, NowThis, Onion Inc., Refinery29, Salon, Slate, Talking Points Media, The Dodo, The Intercept, Thrillist, and VICE. Deadline parent company Penske Media Corporation has a stake in Vox Media. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery 'The Buccaneers' Season 2 Soundtrack: From Griff To Sabrina Carpenter
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Government Acquisitions, Inc. (GAI) Partners with Dataloop to Accelerate AI Adoption for Government Agencies
HERZLIYA, Israel, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Government Acquisitions, Inc. (GAI), a leading federal IT solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Dataloop, a cutting-edge provider of an enterprise-grade, full AI cycle platform that enables teams to easily orchestrate their entire AI development pipelines. Through this partnership, GAI will offer Dataloop's platform to its government customers, helping agencies to automate the preparation of unstructured, multimodal data, transforming it into structured, AI-ready datasets. This data-centric approach streamlines AI development, accelerating the journey from raw data to production-ready models through no-code workflows and an intuitive drag-and-drop simplicity. As part of the agreement, GAI and Dataloop will work jointly on strategic opportunities within the public sector, combining GAI's decades of government contracting expertise with Dataloop's robust AI data infrastructure. Together, the companies aim to accelerate AI adoption across federal, state, and local government agencies by simplifying how data is collected, curated, and deployed in secure, scalable AI environments. "This partnership with Dataloop allows us to expand the range of transformative technologies we bring to our government clients," said Mike Broadwater, Vice President at GAI. "Dataloop's platform addresses one of the most critical barriers to AI success—data readiness—and we're excited to collaborate on delivering solutions that make a real impact on government operations and services." Dataloop's platform enables organizations to manage the entire AI data lifecycle through unstructured data management, AI orchestration pipelines, and a data-centric Agentic builder - accelerating data preparation for AI at scale, empowering agencies to build more accurate, efficient, and secure AI applications "We're honored to partner with GAI, a trusted name in public sector IT," said Avi Yashar The CEO and co-founder at Dataloop. "This collaboration represents a powerful opportunity to help government agencies harness data-driven intelligence while ensuring compliance, transparency, and mission alignment." Together, GAI and Dataloop will support a wide range of government use cases, including defense, national security, and public health, bringing AI-driven solutions to the forefront of public service innovation. About Government Acquisitions, Inc. (GAI)Government Acquisitions, Inc. is a premier federal IT solutions provider with over 35 years of experience delivering innovative, secure, and mission-focused technologies to government agencies. GAI helps clients meet critical objectives through advanced solutions and strategic partnerships. Learn more at About DataloopDataloop is an enterprise-grade data infrastructure platform for AI, designed specifically for unstructured, multimodal data. It provides the data-centric foundation required to support the entire AI/ML lifecycle - with powerful tools for unstructured data management, AI orchestration pipelines, and a data-centric Agentic builder, empowering ML teams to build, iterate, and scale AI solutions with confidence and speed. Since 2017, Dataloop has helped leading enterprises across industries transform unstructured data into real-world AI solutions. Read the announcement on Dataloop and explore our data infrastructure platform See the announcement also on GAI View original content: SOURCE Dataloop Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
Hindustan Times
07-06-2025
- Health
- Hindustan Times
A health care framework for patient-centric use of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are developing at a much faster pace than regulation or industry standards can keep up. With every new breakthrough and innovation, the potential of AI to transform the health care sector increases–whether through screening and diagnostics, public health and complex data analysis, or clinical decision-making. Generative AI (GAI) in particular has the potential to positively impact improve India's healthcare system by supporting clinical care, that is, providing clinical decision support and deepening clinical expertise at the point of care by processing vast amounts of data and knowledge. Ultimately, this leads to better informed decision making and improved health outcomes. Use of AI in sensitive fields like health care is understandably mired in misconceptions and practical challenges. At the outset, it's essential to recognise AI should be seen as a tool to augment, not replace, human expertise the role of AI as a tool that supports the skills of doctor's clinicians, it's equally important to recognise that adoption of AI technologies raises valid concerns about operational efficiency, patient data privacy and algorithmic bias, in addition to broader ethical and regulatory challenges. As AI develops through newer, relevant use-cases for health care, the need of the hour for India is to proactively build a self-reliant framework and roadmap for ethical and responsible use of AI. This can not only ease adoption of emerging AI technologies across India's private and public health care, but can also help address systemic challenges in health care systems. A clear roadmap of AI integration with guardrails can help both India's clinicians and patients benefit from the immense potential of modern AI. In a field as dynamic and ever-evolving as health care, GAI enables critical support to clinicians by creating real-time learning opportunities. It facilitates differential diagnosis especially in complex cases with co-morbidities; by driving sharp insights from large databases to help clinicians and nurses take better-informed calls. GAI platforms trained on Large Language Models (LLMs, clinicians can be understood as a tailored assistant that can answer targeted queries at the point of care and pull up relevant answers efficiently and quickly, allowing clinicians to perform their tasks better by enabling easier access to pertinent data and information. When employing differential diagnosis for patients, GAI solutions based on latest evidence can function as a concentrated pool of knowledge for clinicians to rely on. Modern health care systems are built on technological foundations, from data management, diagnostics to surgical support. AI is the natural next step to increase productivity and accuracy in healthcare by augmenting the skills of medical professionals. GAI can rapidly analyse and synthesise large volumes of medical literature to provide clinicians with the most relevant, reliable evidence to make clinical decisions at the point of care. One of AI's key offerings is personalisation–it can generate patient-specific treatment recommendations and tailor its research based on the unique needs of individual and population profiles. Health care outcomes, for the same conditions and diseases, can vary across regional and population groups. AI can help track and consolidate data for particular population and regional groups. This allows for improved prognostication: clinicians will be able to better track trends from their own practice or areas, instead of relying on data that may not be best suitable for their patient groups. This is particularly significant, as it can help India understand and analyse its population health metrics better. Such an approach can also empower patients to assume a more active role in collaborative decision-making with their clinicians by allowing them greater access to improved quality of information. While GAI promises to be a gamechanger for improving individual and public health, the use of any AI, as an emerging technology, poses questions of data privacy and biases in algorithms which may impact outputs for diverse population segments. As GAI needs voluminous datasets to train on for increased accuracy, confidential patient data must be carefully handled to avoid misuse and breaches, especially to third parties. To build trust in AI and its relevance for health care, there is an urgent need to increase public and medical trust in data handling by AI systems. First, there is a need for clean, evidence-based data. Secondly, a clearly outlined framework for patient privacy is needed. To tap AI's potential to improve health care outcomes, it must be leveraged through a comprehensive framework that governs its usage and applicability. The creation of such a framework necessitates multi-disciplinary collaboration between clinicians, data scientists, ethicists, and policymakers, as it has broad ramifications across medical, ethical, legal, and social lines. At the outset, data privacy vulnerabilities must be thoroughly accounted for, ensuring that any data used is with consent, and that patient data is accurate, properly anonymised and only shared with authorised parties. Algorithms require continuous human oversight to detect and mitigate gender or historical biases. Additionally, operational issues such as transparency and accountability must be prioritised by organisations adopting and integrating AI into their existing systems. As regulation around AI is still evolving, a constant eye on regulatory compliance is necessary to stay up to date with legal requirements. Continuous monitoring and evaluation are key to ensure use of GAI is both ethical and efficient. This article is authored by Dr Arun Khemariya, senior clinical specialist, Elsevier India.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
NowThis Workers Unanimously Ratify New 3-Year WGA East Contract
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Staff at the short-form video news outlet NowThis have officially reached a deal with management on a new three-year contract. Per the Writers Guild of America East, the new collective agreement — which establishes higher wage minimums and key protections against generative artificial intelligence — was unanimously ratified by the 9-member bargaining unit. More from Deadline 'The Mighty 9 remaining members of the NowThis Union are thrilled to celebrate our successful contract negotiation!' the NowThis bargaining unit said in a statement Wednesday. 'We're very thankful to those who supported us by writing letters to the CEOs of NowThis and Accelerate Change and encouraging them to help us reach a deal. We look forward to working with management and continuing to grow NowThis into the success we know it is.' Highlights from the contract include an increased wage minimum of $80,000. The overall contract minimum has been bumped to $65,000 with an additional $1,000 increase to all minimums in Year 2 and Year 3. All current members will also receive raises retroactive to April 1, with respect to seniority and current salary. As for generative AI, which has been a huge priority for the WGAE in its contracts with various news outlets as of late, the protections are as follows: Unless the Company obtains the consent of the individual, the Company shall not use or sell a digital replica (voice or likeness or style) of any individual within the bargaining unit At least 15 days' notice to the Union of the Company's intent to use any new GAI tool or similar technology that it expects to have a direct and material impact on specific terms and conditions of employment applicable to members of the unit Employees may decline to be credited, on any content where GAI has been used in a substantial capacity to alter or create the original content 'Our members at NowThis have been critical to the company's success and growth,' Sara David, WGAE Vice President of Online Media, added in a statement of her own. 'We're proud to see these dedicated members win a contract that reflects their value.' This marks the second contract for workers at NowThis since organizing with the WGAE. The bargaining unit ratified its first ever union contract in 2022. The WGAE represents a wide range of publications in the online news sector including the Bustle Digital Group, Civic News Group, CNET, Committee to Protect Journalists, Fast Company, Future PLC, Gizmodo Media Group, Hearst Magazines, HuffPost, Inc., Jewish Currents, NowThis, Onion Inc., Refinery29, Salon, Slate, Talking Points Media, The Dodo, The Intercept, Thrillist, VICE and Vox Media. Best of Deadline Sign up for Deadline's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
