Advocacy groups push California's AG to ensure that OpenAI's becoming a for-profit adheres to the law; OpenAI formed an advisory commission in response
A group of activists is turning to an old playbook to influence the future of one of the world's most powerful AI companies. Bluesky: @zoeschiffer . X: @wired . LinkedIn: Paresh Dave Bluesky: Zoë Schi...
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture
Paresh Dave / Wired : X: @peard33 X: Paresh Dave / @peard33 : Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean up tech platforms. Now it's reeling amid fights on Slack and...
In Reddit's S-1, Steve Huffman offers a look at the site's beginnings without naming co-founder Alexis Ohanian, reflecting their schism during the BLM protests
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Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed
its failure will have a large impact Alexa Mikhail / Fortune : ‘You can lose everything’: How founders' mental health also collapsed with SVB's downfall Paul Gompers / HBR.org : Silicon Valley Bank's ...
Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet and some of its tech and staff will be consolidated into Google Research robotics efforts
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Internal emails: Google sets rules for hosting HQ guest speakers, like making a business case and considering company goals, after row over an Indian historian
Paresh Dave / Reuters : Tweets: @profdilipmandal , @anuradhasays , and @alphabetworkers Tweets: Dilip Mandal / @profdilipmandal : Good News Today: @Google cancelled Hindu Upper Caste supremacist Ra...
Internal emails: Google sets rules for hosting HQ guest speakers, like making a business case and considering company goals, after row over an Indian historian
Paresh Dave / Reuters : Tweets: @alphabetworkers , @anuradhasays , and @profdilipmandal Tweets: @alphabetworkers : WORKER WIN! We've been organizing to end caste-based discrimination at Alphabet. Las...
Around two years ago, Apple updated its employee conduct policy to prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste, making it a leader on the issue alongside IBM
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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
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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 , ...