Amazon says it has 1M+ robots in its warehouses, the most it's ever had and near the count of human workers, with ~75% of global deliveries assisted by robotics
The e-commerce giant now counts more than one million of the machines at its facilities — | Photographs and Videos by Desiree Rios for WSJ
Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV
A tighter labor market and lower corporate tolerance have stifled once boisterous employee input on controversies over company policy, AI safety and the Israel-Gaza war.
Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests
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After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal S...
After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok …
Memo: Google tells staff they can discuss the US DOJ's antitrust case, rescinding an earlier command, as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/t...
Sources: Bluesky is finalizing a new round at a ~$700M valuation led by Bain Capital Ventures; it raised a $15M Series A in October 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023
- Bluesky, an alternative to X, saw a surge of users after Donald Trump was elected in November.