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WTF happened to Meta (Blind)

• boredddddd (Microsoft): Intuit people asking what happened to Meta lol. Didn’t you guys do a major layoff on the same day as Meta?
• TechMommy1 (Thermo Fisher): The moment Sheryl left… that was the beginning of the end. So many people internally said this (I was there at the time). She was the one that turned into a profitable business. And she left right before name and business change to “Meta”… in my eyes, that’s what happened to FB. It lost the real business minded leader.
• williab (Meta): We good. What happened to you?

AI Layoffs Are Backfiring And Rehiring Has Begun (Blind)

• EVxB36 (The Home Depot): We started hiring a bunch a few weeks ago, mostly ML people. Brutal layoffs not seen since 2008 just a few months prior, but yeah.
• IBYh04 (HPE): Who’s rehiring exactly?
• _abcdeffff (UiPath): Rehiring has begun in India*

Anthropic calls for global freeze in AI development (r/technology)

• Cyraga: Wolf with a bloody maw and engorged belly says it’s time to stop eating meat for a little bit
• FrankDrebinOnReddit: This is so obviously just hyping their product. “We have something so dangerous, so effective it can’t be permitted.” They know AI development isn’t going to stop, and they just filed their IPO this week.
• Morganrow: Nobody is going to help people more than a company launching an IPO. Glad they have humanity on their minds

Brave is charging \$60 to remove features it added in the first place (r/technology)

• Zwemvest: Oh hey, what a weird surprise. Brave being sketchy again.
• bazza_ryder: Laughs in Firefox
• ExF-Altrue: Daily reminder that, unlike to the Mozilla Foundation, Brave is a for profit company.

‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its \$200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate employees (r/technology)

• The-Best-of-Best: Ah yes, the classic corporate playbook: ‘We need to decrease bureaucracy and increase efficiency’ by firing 30,000 human beings to fund a \$200 billion server farm.
• tisdue: corporations this large need to be held to completely different standards. and need to be taxed much more severely. especially if they are doing nothing for the labor force.
• Likma_sack: Its high time the average citizens start standing together and show a big “fuck you” to these rich assholes