Some Google employees were fired after protesting the company’s contract with Israel. After the protests, CEO Sundar Pichai said workers should not ‘attempt to use the company as a personal platform.’ Google fires staff who protested contract with Israeli government Google fires dozens after protests over $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with Amazon, which provides …
Employees from Alphabet Inc, its Google unit and members of Jewish and Palestinian organizations, protest cloud computing work by Google and Amazon for the Israeli governmentPhoto: Paresh Dave (Reuters) Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees not to “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics” at the office, a day after the company fired 28 workers …
Best Buy has made significant cuts to its workforce, including the Geek Squad. On the heels of the cuts, the Minnesota-based company announced that artificial intelligence will help customers Addressing “lower business demand,” Best Buy has made a significant cut to its workforce and laid off a number of employees, including Geek Squad field agents, …
Human and AI integration in the workplace getty As AI reshapes the landscape of work, it also presents an opportunity to revolutionize sustainability reporting on how we report and improve labor conditions globally. This technological revolution offers the potential to not only just automate routine tasks, but also provide deeper insights and greater transparency into …
Ever since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, many people in science, business, and media have been obsessed with AI. A cursory look at my own published work during that period fingers me as among the guilty. My defense is that I share with those other obsessives a belief that large language models are …
Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI on Monday, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 an hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can undercut real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real-time. …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg steered the company through a “year of efficiency” that saw massive layoffs and record profits. Alex Wong—Getty Images Lots of big tech companies are slimming down and cutting their workforces. This corporate trimming of the fat has become common in the tech sector over the past couple of years. Well-known marketing …
In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, a group of researchers evaluated Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots’ human-like behaviors and personality traits against global human benchmarks. Background Modern AI has achieved Turing’s vision of machines that can mimic human behaviors, including conversing, advising, and creative writing. Turing’s “imitation game” tests if an AI can …
Roughly 40% of global employment is exposed to artificial intelligence, according to a new analysis by the IMF. Should local organisations and employees be concerned jobs are going to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) as it is adopted around the globe? Executives in the technology, manufacturing and job recruitment fields indicate the impact is …
A Reuters investigation into unsafe working conditions at SpaceX has uncovered more than 600 injuries going back to 2014 that have not been publicly reported until now. Current and former employees cited in the report blame CEO Elon Musk’s aggressive deadlines and hatred of bureaucracy, alleging his goal of getting humans to Mars “as fast …