Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests
Jason Koebler / 404media - "This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."
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Nearly 4,000 NASA Employees Quit as Part of Trump Buyouts
Ellyn Lapointe / gizmodo - “And yet, somehow, we’re going to go to Mars sooner.”
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Walmart Taps Instacart Executive to Lead Its AI Ambitions
Sarah Nassauer / wsj - Daniel Danker will become Walmart’s head of global AI acceleration, product and design, reporting to the CEO.
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Sonos Appoints Tom Conrad as Its Permanent CEO Amid Shifting Markets
Sonos has officially made Tom Conrad its permanent CEO following a period of interim leadership. This decisive move is part of the company’s broader strategy to navigate evolving audio markets and technological challenges, leaving industry insiders both confident and wry about what the future holds.
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Microsoft poaches top Google DeepMind staff in AI talent war - Financial Times
google - Microsoft poaches top Google DeepMind staff in AI talent war Financial Times
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Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
Hayden Field / theverge - Instacart’s former CEO, Fidji Simo, will start her new role as an OpenAI executive on August 18th, leading at least one-third of the company and reporting directly to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Simo will be “CEO of Applications,” tasked with scaling and growi…
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Meta poaches two more key members of Apple’s AI team
Christian Zibreg / idownloadblog - Meta has hired two more key members of Apple's AI foundation models team after it recently poached one of the iPhone maker's top AI researchers.
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Amazon AWS Cloud Unit Suffers Major Job Cuts Amid Layoffs
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit has reportedly laid off hundreds of employees as part of an ongoing restructuring effort. The significant reduction in workforce reflects broader industry challenges and signals a strategic recalibration in response to a rapidly evolving digital landscape, as companies tighten resources and reexamine operational priorities.
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Virtuos Executes Major Layoffs Amid Restructuring
Virtuos, famed for its remastered classics, is undergoing a painful restructuring that has resulted in roughly 270 employee layoffs. The move, aimed at modernizing the studio’s operations, underscores the volatile nature of the gaming industry while prompting both industry insiders and affected staff to brace for uncertain times ahead.
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Scale AI lays off 200 employees, one month after Meta's $14 billion investment — says it scaled up too quickly
tomshardware - Just one month on from Meta investing an alleged $15 billion in data annotation firm, Scale AI, and it's letting go of 200 of its employees, claiming that it scaled up its generative AI teams too quickly.
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Ubisoft CEO Makes His Son Co-CEO Of New Ubisoft
Ethan Gach / kotaku - Earlier this year, Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft got $1.25 billion from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent to spin-off its most successful gaming franchises into a separate subsidiary. Now we know who’s running this new Ubisoft within Ubisoft: North Ameri…
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Starbucks Mandates Four-Days In-Office for Corporate Staff
Starbucks is shaking up its work policies by requiring corporate staff to return to the office for four days a week—a step up from the previous three-day requirement. The decision, confirmed by the CEO and reported by multiple outlets, has stirred a cocktail of bemusement and skepticism among employees.
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AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds
Thomas Claburn / theregister - Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.…
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Indeed, Glassdoor to lay off 1,300 staff
Ram Iyer / techcrunch - Recruit Holdings, the Japanese parent of Indeed and Glassdoor, is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 6% of the staff at the two job sites.
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Meta Offered Over $200 Million to Poach Apple’s Top AI Exec: Report
Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - Meta offered a massive pay package worth over $200 million to lure a top AI engineer away from Apple, according to a new reportThe post Meta Offered Over $200 Million to Poach Apple’s Top AI Exec: Report first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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X’s CEO is out after failing at basically everything she claimed she wanted
Jay Peters / theverge - Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as X's CEO - and leaving the platform once known as Twitter in a worse place than when she started. A day after X users circulated viral screenshots of the company's Grok chatbot denigrating Jews and declaring itself "Mech…
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Meta Offered Apple AI Executive Over $200 Million to Leave
Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Meta offered one of Apple's top artificial intelligence executives over $200 million to lure him away from the company, Bloomberg reports.Ruoming Pang, who until recently led Apple's foundation models team, departed the company to join Meta's Superintelli…
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OpenAI Poaches Top Engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI hires senior engineers from rivals Tesla, xAI, and Meta, a strategic counter-move in the escalating AI talent war over critical infrastructure talent.The post OpenAI Poaches Top Engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire from company later this year
cnbc - Apple said Jeff Williams, the company's COO, will take on a new role overseeing the company's design team along with the Apple Watch and health initiatives.
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Apple’s Top AI Engineer Jumps Ship to Meta in Poaching Blow: Report
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Apple’s artificial intelligence efforts just took another hit. According to a report from Bloomberg, Ruoming Pang—the executive leading Apple’s foundation models team—is leaving the company to join Meta. He’s the latest in a string of high-profile hires b…
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