By Michael Grothaus March 01, 2023 Recent months have not been good for the tech and media industries, which have seen hundreds of thousands of jobs lost as companies look for ways to reduce costs among slowing sales and fears of an economic downturn. But Big Tech and media weren’t the only industries hit … Continue reading Mass layoffs hit the automotive industry as GM reportedly joins Ford and Rivian
Elon Musk says Twitter is fixing its Elon Musk tweet problem Steve Dent @stevetdent If you’ve been using Twitter’s “For You” instead of the chronological “Following” tab, you may have noticed a problem. A number of users have remarked that the algorithmic feed has been showing a lot of Elon Musk’s tweets and replies, … Continue reading Twitter reportedly created a system to artificially boost Elon Musk’s tweets
Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees Karissa Bell @karissabe Meta is reducing the size of its workforce by about 13 percent and letting more than 11,000 of its employees go in the first mass layoffs in the company’s history. Mark Zuckerberg has announced the move in a message to employees, which Meta … Continue reading Meta reportedly plans more job cuts
Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, February 5, 2023 Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic as a preferred cloud provider, announced Friday, includes a financial investment, very similar to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. While the post on the Google Cloud blog did not mention Google’s … Continue reading Google Partners With AI Company Anthropic, Reportedly Makes Financial Investment
SoundHound wants to take on Google and Amazon in voice AI Jessica Conditt @JessConditt When it comes to voice recognition software, SoundHound is definitely not as big a name as Google or Amazon — yet. SoundHound has raised $75 million in support of its efforts to create artificial intelligence systems capable of recognizing complex … Continue reading Voice AI company SoundHound has reportedly laid off half its workforce
Roberto Baldwin @strngwys The need to electrify its lineup could have resulted in Mercedes tossing an EV powertrain in its S-Class. Instead, it made the correct decision to create an EV-specific vehicle, the EQS. With nearly all of the trappings of the S-Class, the EQS sets a new standard in luxury for the EV world. … Continue reading Mercedes will reportedly drop the EQ brand to prepare for an all-electric future
Kanye West is buying controversial ‘free speech’ app Parler Steve Dent @stevetdent Last week, Kanye West (aka Ye) was locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts following a weekend of antisemitic posts. Now, the saga has taken a sharp turn with news that the hip-hop mogul is acquiring the controversial “free speech” social … Continue reading Parler has reportedly cut ‘majority’ of staff in recent weeks
Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or lose their jobs Mariella Moon @mariella_moon Twitter might lose even more employees following the mass layoffs that halved its workforce and shortly after the company fired engineers who publicly called out its new owner. According to The Washington Post, Elon Musk … Continue reading Twitter has reportedly laid off more of its global content moderation team
Microsoft invests $1 billion in Elon Musk-founded OpenAI Christine Fishe @cfisherwrites Today, Microsoft announced that it’s investing $1 billion in the Elon Musk-founded company OpenAI. The two companies will work together to bring supercomputing technologies and AI to Microsoft Azure. And OpenAI will run its services exclusively in Microsoft’s cloud. Ultimately, the partners hope … Continue reading Microsoft is reportedly integrating ChatGPT’s technology into Bing
Cherlynn Low @cherlynnlow For years, Apple has been the lone holdout in a sea of all-screen phones with punch-hole cutouts that house selfie cameras. The black rectangle that sat at the top of its flagships since the iPhone X has drawn some criticism, but mostly ambivalence. Apple has kept it around, in large part because … Continue reading Apple’s ‘unprecedented’ engineering snafu reportedly spoiled plans for more powerful iPhone 14 Pro chip
