Amazon said on Tuesday it would reduce its corporate workforce by approximately 14,000 roles as part of an effort to remove bureaucracy and organizational layers. Beth Galetti, the company’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, told employees in a memo that the cuts followed earlier work to strengthen Read more…
Can YouTube capture the hours people spending watching “traditional” TV? I its viewership on TV sets has “surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S. It’s come a long way since the 19-second “me at the zoo” video was uploaded in April 2005. Now, Read more…
Previously there may have been some stigma attached to using AI, but now companies are “scapegoating” the technology to take the fall for challenging business moves such as layoffs. “I’m really skeptical whether the layoffs that we see currently are really due to true efficiency gains. It’s rather really a Read more…
As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way of life, pushing the limits of work hours, demanding that workers move fast to be first in the market. Some are even promoting 996 as a virtue in Read more…
OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off, it did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.” In September they released a paper adding that “several state-of-the-art large language models (including Grok 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro) sometimes actively Read more…
Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday, challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Exxon argued that Senate Bills 253 and 261 violate its Read more…
Data centers were typically hulking, chilly buildings lined with stacks of computing gear and bundles of wiring, but AI experts say that the hubs for computers that power AI are different from the data centers that deliver your Netflix movies and Uber rides. They use a different mix of computer Read more…