Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
the OpenAI chief scientist who helped fire Sam Altman then backtracked—should jump ship for xAI or Tesla Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI's Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions Gary Marcus /...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
Tech companies often rely on their Black employees to help address their response to systemic racism, giving them more work without additional pay or time off
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Tech companies often rely on their Black employees to help address their response to systemic racism, giving them more work without additional pay or time off
As Black Lives Matter protests captured national attention, tech companies have leaned heavily on black employee resource groups … Tweets: @nitashatiku , @peard33 , @heatherkelly , @kirstinestewart , ...
Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace
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The National Labor Relations Board issues a complaint against Lanetix, a San Francisco software firm that fired 14 engineers after they filed papers to unionize
Nitasha Tiku / Wired : Tweets: @nitashatiku Tweets: Nitasha Tiku / @nitashatiku : white collar engineers almost never unionize. the engineers at startup this startup tried. Ten days later, they were ...
Inside the community of “Bird hunters”, who search for and charge e-scooters for firms like Bird and compare the activity to playing Pokémon Go, but for money
and Occasionally Dangerous—Youth Trend Tweets: Nitasha Tiku / @nitashatiku : must-read dispatch from late capitalism by @TaylorLorenz on the scooter charger labor market http://www.theatlantic.com/......
How waste specialists and nonprofits manage the leftover food from Silicon Valley companies' extravagance
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