as the bbc s michelle fleury reports from new york. amazon announced 0 a new chat bot for people to use at work. there seems to be a dispute over where the name came from. some say it s 0, after the character from the james bond movies. others say it s 0, a character from the star trek tv shows. either way, this is a big deal. amazon may not have built chatgpt, but it now has its own generative ai helper. which is designed to assist employees with daily tasks, whether it s answering questions about company policy, to coding, to summarizing strategy documents. crucially, though, it will compete with other corporate chat bots, including microsoft s copilot and google s doitai. now, the tech giant also unveiled new ai. chips at its annual developer conference in las vegas, where also taking the stage was the boss of chip maker in nvidia, a sign of the deepening relationship between these two. amazon said that as well as its own ai chips, it would offer customers access to nvidia
a jet, powered by waste fats and plant proteins flies from london and arrives in new york. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. starting with news from india where 41 construction workers who had been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the himalayas for 17 days have been rescued. they were greeted with applause as they emerged from a steel pipe that had been pushed through the rubble. they re said to be in good health but will now be fully assessed at a nearby hospital. the bbc s south asia correspondent samira hussain sent this report. this moment, more than two weeks in the making. 41 trapped workers finally rescued. cheering. an eruption of cheers from workers and onlookers. people sharing sweets and hugs. these are the ambulances with the first workers that have come out from inside the tunnel. 17 days, they have spent inside that tunnel and now they are finally out and in those ambulances. rescuers spent the last sev