Amazon's AGI team lead, Rohit Prasad, is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Mi...
Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June
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Microsoft is creating a new “CoreAI - Platform and Tools” unit led by Jay Parikh, the ex-Lacework CEO and Meta engineering executive who joined in October 2024
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Expedia plans to cut ~1,500 roles in 2024, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023, about half in tech
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Apple machine learning leader Ali Farhadi, who sold Xnor.ai to Apple for ~$200M in 2020, departs to become the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence's CEO
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Amazon's Ring names former Meta and Microsoft executive Elizabeth Hamren as its CEO, replacing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who will remain as chief inventor
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Amazon's direct workforce declined by 99K in Q2 to 1.52M, a record QoQ drop, primarily due to attrition in its warehouses after the pandemic-driven expansion
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Tweets: @epro . Thanks: @taylor_soper Tweets: Emil Protalinski / @epro : $AMZN employees (excludes contractors/temps) Q3 2019: 750,000 Q4 2019: 798,000 Q1 2020: 840,400 Q2 20...
Q&A with Microsoft President Brad Smith on covering travel for employees seeking abortion, labor and employment reforms, pending antitrust regulation, and more
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In an email to employees, Andy Jassy says Amazon will leave remote work decisions to team leaders, instead of having everyone return by January
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