Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit, citing a shift from manual reviews to a “consistent and automated process” that is delivering “reliable compliance outcomes”
this layoff doesn't make sense and my hunch is that it might be targeted towards ex-GenAI people. Meta's loss, but could be your win if you hiring frontier RL researchers ;) LinkedIn: Jyoti Mann : Exc...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise
The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times's digital operation.
Memo: The New York Times has hired Quartz co-founder Zach Seward to work with the newsroom leadership in establishing principles around the use of generative AI
Quartz co-founder Zach Seward tasked with establishing principles for how the Times will and won't use generative AI X: @scottnover See also Mediagazer X: Scott Nover / @scottnover : The @nytimes hire...
At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud's new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week
'It's just not a nice experience' Huileng Tan / Insider : Google's CEO touts desk-sharing, says the office can feel like a ‘ghost town’ with many employees in the office just 2 days a week: CNBC Tweet...
Twitter's ex-head of Trust & Safety on why he resigned: a Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function
Twitter isn't going anywhere. $44 billion corporations … Luc Olinga / TheStreet : Elon Musk Bids Farewell to Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Mitsuwo Note : Strange coincidence between Elon Musk and Ji...
Slack, introduced to newsrooms to boost efficiency, is now serving another purpose: letting journalists organize and criticize, forcing management to respond
On the evening of June 6, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet entered the chat. — Times employees were in open revolt following … Tweets: @jkeefe , @loudmouthjulia , @dcbigjohn , @lpolgreen ...
Memo: Google fires four employees, citing data-security violations, amid rising tension between management and staff
But Critics Say It's Retaliation for Protesting Charlie Wood / Business Insider : Googlers say the company is trying to crush worker organization after it fired 4 people Cara Curtis / The Next Web : G...
Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure
and that it might be toxic Lauren Johnson / Business Insider : Quartz's new app is banking on big names like Richard Branson to help create a 'constructive … Recode : Recode Daily: Facebook battles re...
New York Times Deputy Tech Editor Quentin Hardy leaving to become the head of editorial for Google Cloud
Tess Townsend / Recode : Tweets: @digiphile , @qhardy , and @mims . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alex Howard / @digiphile : @qhardy big, hairy, audacious goal, that. Glad you're thinking big, but I am...