Day: February 5, 2024
Snap Inc. Announces 10% Reduction in Employee Numbers
Snap, the parent company of the messaging app Snapchat, announced a workforce reduction of more than 500 employees, amounting to 10 percent of its global work force. The majority of the layoffs are expected to occur in the first quarter of 2024. The company stated that it would incur pretax charges of $55 million to […]
Read More
4chan Study Finds Rise of Fake and Explicit Taylor Swift Images
The images of Taylor Swift that were generated by AI and spread across social media in late January were probably created as part of a recurring challenge on 4chan, a message board known for sharing hate speech, conspiracy theories, and racist and offensive content made using A.I. The people on 4chan created the images of […]
Read More
The Persistence of Job Cuts in Big Tech Industry
After a year of big layoffs, job cuts at the tech indu…rgest companies trickled into the first month of 202… The layoffs continued even as sales and profit…d tech insiders and analysts say, is reflective of … huge challenges: coming to terms with frenetic wo…ing an aggressive move into building artificial intell…d. “We go through […]
Read More
From Happiness to Cutbacks: The Transformation of Google’s Offices
At Google’ Cambridge, Mass. office, Diane Hirsh Theriault’s colleagues lost their jobs in October. Over 40 news division employees were laid off, leading to an unease among staff. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, aims to mitigate expenses for increasing its investment in artificial intelligence. Google’s job cuts have led to restructuring the work groups and removing […]
Read More