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IMDb has revealed its most popular movies, shows, and stars of 2024, based on actual page views from over 250 million monthly visitors. Deadpool & Wolverine topped the movie list, while True Detective led TV shows. Sydney Sweeney emerged as the Most Popular Star, with Glen Powell named Breakout Star of 2024. The year's top movies featured both franchise continuations like Dune: Part Two and original films. Streaming series debuts were notably successful, including The Penguin, Fallout, and Shogun.

Twelve Labs, a startup specializing in multimodal AI for video content understanding, is partnering with AWS to enhance video searchability. The company's foundation models enable natural language searches within videos, analyzing actions, objects, and sounds. Using AWS technologies, Twelve Labs has achieved up to 10% faster training speeds while reducing costs by over 15%.

Their Marengo and Pegasus models can provide text summaries and audio translations in over 100 languages, making video content searchable and accessible. The technology allows developers to create applications for semantic video search across media, entertainment, gaming, and sports industries, enabling precise moment retrieval and automated highlight reel creation.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its most successful Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event ever, spanning from November 21 to December 2. The event saw record sales and a record number of items sold, with customers saving billions of dollars. Millions of Echo and Fire TV devices were purchased, with Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick 4K among the best-sellers. Popular categories in the U.S. included Electronics, Toys, and Beauty, featuring items like Beats headphones, Samsung TVs, Barbie, and Shark vacuums.

Independent sellers, mostly small and medium-sized businesses, also had their largest event ever, accounting for over 60% of sales. Amazon continues to offer millions more deals worldwide with fast delivery options for Prime members. An independent study confirmed Amazon's prices were, on average, 14% lower than other leading U.S. retailers entering the holiday season. Customers can continue to find deals on a wide range of products through December 24.

AWS and SAP have announced GROW with SAP on AWS, making AWS the first cloud provider to offer this solution through its marketplace. This collaboration simplifies cloud ERP deployment, reducing implementation time from years to months with no upfront costs. The solution integrates with Amazon Bedrock for generative AI capabilities, complementing SAP's Joule copilot. The system leverages AWS Nitro System for enhanced performance and AWS Graviton chips for improved energy efficiency. The service will utilize Amazon Bedrock's foundation models from various AI companies, offering customers streamlined business operations and advanced AI applications.

AWS announced new data center components designed to support next-generation AI innovation and improve efficiency. Key improvements include simplified electrical and mechanical design achieving 99.9999% infrastructure availability, innovative cooling systems with liquid-to-chip capabilities, and enhanced power delivery supporting a 6x increase in rack power density. The updates will provide 12% more compute power while reducing mechanical energy consumption by 46% and concrete embodied carbon by 35%. Implementation will begin in early 2025 across AWS's global infrastructure, including 34 Regions and 108 Availability Zones.

Lotus Technology has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to advance its intelligent and luxury vehicle development. The partnership supports Lotus's Vision80 Strategy to become a global luxury technology brand by 2028. Using AWS's technologies including IoT, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI, Lotus will enhance its autonomous driving solutions, connected features, and vehicle personalization.

The company's ROBO Soul self-driving software and ROBO Galaxy platform run on AWS, enabling automated tasks like parking and highway driving. Lotus Connect, their connected-vehicle platform, provides remote vehicle control and monitoring with application latency under 2.2 seconds for its Digital Key feature. AWS also powers Lotus's 3D vehicle rendering system for customization and personalized car-buying experiences.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new generative AI enhancements for Amazon Connect, its cloud contact center solution. The updates include automated segmentation for proactive outreach, Amazon Q in Connect for AI-powered customer self-service, customizable AI guardrails, and new AI-powered agent evaluation tools. These features aim to deliver more personalized customer experiences, improve self-service capabilities, and enhance contact center efficiency. The solution supports over 10 million daily contact center interactions across thousands of customers, including Frontdoor, Fujitsu, GoStudent, Priceline, Pronetx, and University of Auckland.

Amazon has announced the expansion of Buy with Prime to SteveMadden.com, allowing Prime members to shop directly from Steve Madden's online store using their Prime benefits. The service offers fast, free delivery, easy returns, 24/7 shopper support, and convenient checkout. Merchants using Buy with Prime have seen an average 16% increase in revenue per shopper, with 50% of Prime members more likely to make repeat purchases from DTC sites offering Prime benefits. The service has helped reduce out-of-stock rates by 13% and improved inventory turnover by 24% for merchants using it alongside Amazon's fulfillment services.

Amazon has unveiled its Best Books of 2024, with Thomas Fuller's 'The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory' claiming the top spot. The inspiring narrative follows a deaf football team's journey from underdogs to champions. Liz Moore's 'The God of the Woods' and Percival Everett's 'James' secured second and third places respectively. The selection process involved Amazon Books Editors reading thousands of new releases throughout the year. The top 100 list spans various genres, including literature, mystery, romance, history, and children's books, offering recommendations for all types of readers.