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Amazon INTENSIONALLY leaks layoffs (Blind)
- nthin2lose (SentinelOne): Amazon knows how to keep everything toxic.
- Jefry (Salesforce): They also stack rank by spelling performance.
Mass Layoffs Have Consequences (Blind)
- RowdySWE (Block): Elon basically gave CEOs permission to start doing this when he ripped apart twitter and it was still functioning.
- crazzak (Microsoft): Employees don’t feel invested in companies that throw them away like trash the second it saves them a buck; this leads to less innovation and decline in quality.
Congratulations Google (Blind)
- HypeOS (Apple): Pretty sure this revenue is a bit of a faff. GCP is charging Gemini and recording this as revenue for serving Google Gemini responses?
- Zuckerbrug (Samsung): Listen to the earnings call. Not only cloud but they are owning AI. OpenAI better get that IPO done soon before Google eats their lunch…
Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage (r/technology)
- CanvasFanatic: Note that some of these contractors came forward to blow the whistle on what they were being asked to do (despite how little they were being paid) and were punished for it.
- bigkoi: The glasses with camera thing is creeping. It’s the modern equivalent of the guy wearing mirrors on his shoes.
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps (r/technology)
- BeMancini: “Okay, how about we plant a story in the media that you all feel really really bad about it? Will that get you to stay until your stock is vested? Will that get you to stay until we unceremoniously lay you off?”
- zhaoz: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”. Upton Sinclair.
Sam Altman No Longer Believes In Universal Basic Income (r/singularity)
- Lankonk: I mean, he’s not wrong. UBI would be insufficient if 20 people owned everything. A broader, collective ownership of the world’s enterprises would go a long way towards preventing a catastrophic concentration of power.
- revengeofwalrus: He’s a narcissistic sociopath. Of course he’s changing his tune.