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Hurricane Melissa approaches Jamaica as a dangerous storm. The hurricane strengthened into a Category 5 storm yesterday, picking up strength as it traveled over unusually warm waters in the Caribbean Sea. It’s expected to make landfall in Jamaica this morning and to bring destructive flooding, storm surge, and winds. People were ordered to evacuate coastal areas yesterday in preparation for the slow-moving storm, which is likely to cause severe damage to the nation’s infrastructure. It’s expected to be the most powerful storm to hit Jamaica since it began keeping records in 1851, and the island’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, “I have been on my knees in prayer.”
Amazon plans mass corporate layoffs. The e-commerce giant will cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs across departments, Reuters reported yesterday. That would make the terminations, set to start today, the largest corporate layoff in the company’s history, per CNBC, trumping the 27,000 it let go in 2022. Amazon employs 1.5+ million people overall, but only about 350,000 on the corporate side. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been looking to cut costs and simplify the company’s corporate organization, and he also predicted that AI would likely lead to a reduction in its corporate headcount.
NBA reviewing its policies after gambling arrests. The league told its teams yesterday that it had commenced a review of how it reports player injuries to the public, as well as prop bets and how it might use AI and other tools to identify gamblers with insider information. The review follows the arrest of Miami guard Terry Rozier and Portland coach Chauncey Billups, who were accused of participating in illegal gambling schemes. The league called it “an opportune time to carefully reassess how sports betting should be regulated and how sports leagues can best protect themselves, their players, and their fans.”—AR
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