 We try to remove as many of those barriers as we can. Several counties throughout Oregon opened up emergency cooling shelters. Some even put up homeless residents in hotel rooms. For NPR News, I'm Tiffany Kamhi in Portland. One thing AI apparently does pretty well, tax preparation. That's going to affect jobs at one major firm, Intuit, which also produces financial software like QuickBooks and TurboTax. It says it's cutting about 10% of its workforce, laying off around 1,800 employees.