Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
And It's Not Because of AI or Cost Cutting Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Andy Jassy Is Turning Amazon Into The 'World's Largest Startup' — One Layer At A Time Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon's CEO s...
Amazon plans to end support for its videoconferencing tool Chime on February 20, 2026; report: Amazon is adopting Zoom as its standard app for internal meetings
cc @quinnypig.com [embedded post] Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : Amazon acquires Zoom in 3, 2, 1... [embedded post] Patrick / @itspatrickpl : Did not even know that this existed Mastodon: Harr...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2, 2025, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture
Amazon orders employees back to the office five days a week Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders employees back to the office 5 days a week in one of the strictest RTO mandat...
Intuit plans to cut 10% of its global workforce, or ~1,800 employees, and rehire the same number, primarily in its engineering, product, and sales divisions
Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi sent the following note to Intuit employees today: Sheryl Estrada / Fortune : Exclusive: Intuit is laying off 1,800 employees as AI leads to a strategic shift Brandon Vigliar...
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting
how does Amazon remain resilient? While simple in its wording, it's profound because it gets to the heart of our success to date as well as for the future” His response: [image] Rihard Jarc / @rihardj...
Sources: Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in its VPN, Relay, its Online Footprint Scrubber, and mozilla.social, shut down Hubs, and cut ~60 employees
Mozilla, which it pays to be Firefox's default search — does so little with the money. Endlessly chasing shiny objects and delivering almost nothing of value Mastodon: Dan Lyke / @danlyke@researchbuz...
Xerox plans to cut 15% of its workforce as part of a restructuring; the company had ~20,500 employees as of December 31, 2022, per an SEC filing; XRX drops 12%+
Xerox has been shrinking for years so this may not be a surprise to many. — https://www.cnbc.com/... Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @epro.social : Here's something you don't see every day: Layoffs foll...
Zoom, known for helping millions of people work from home, asks its employees living within 50 miles of an office to work in person at least two days per week
an engraved invitation to disruption [embedded post] Casey Newton / @caseynewton.bsky.social : It's too much to say that this marks the end of remote work in Silicon Valley but .... Only by a little b...
Sources: Elon Musk claimed his new startup xAI was worth $20B while he was trying to recruit top AI talent, including by offering equity in xAI
what could possibly go wrong? Hisan Kidwai / Android Headlines : Elon Musk launches new AI company xAI to understand the universe Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @epro.social : who said you need crypto to...
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more
Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Reuters : Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI Kara Carlson / USA Tod...