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TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-03 10:32:06

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk 22 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs in the UK which moderate content that appears on the social media platform at risk. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthe

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TikTok Shifts to AI Moderation With Mass Layoffs

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-05 22:52:11

Social media giant TikTok made a major symbolic move today by canning hundreds of UK and Asian moderators as it attempts to integrate artificial intelligence into more processes throughout the company. The Chinese tech giant said that workers displaced in the move will have priority in hiring if they meet unspecified criteria. The company did not disclose the exact number of people laid off from its 2,500 in the UK, the Wall Street Journal reports. The BBC reports that the move was immediately

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TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-06 22:32:06

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators 30 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is planning to lay off hundreds of staff in the UK which moderate the content that appears on the social media platform. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to stre

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Bank Fires Workers in Favor of AI Chatbot, Rehires Them After Chatbot Is Terrible at the Job

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-06 22:40:04

Companies all over the world are currently racing to shrink their workforces and replace them with AI. Often, it seems, this isn’t working out for the firms involved. Case in point: A bank in Australia recently did so, but then had to ask its workers to come back after it turned out that the chatbot that it had launched to replace them couldn’t cut the mustard. Last month, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced that it would be laying off 45 customer service workers as it rolled out a new

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Elon Musk and X reach settlement with axed Twitter workers

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-06 22:51:40

Elon Musk and X reach settlement with axed Twitter workers The BBC has contacted X - formerly called Twitter - and the lawyers representing the employees for comment. Some workers sued the company over their terminations and severance packages, after some 6,000 staff - more than half its workforce - were sacked as part of a cost-cutting measure after Musk took over the company in 2022. The parties reported the deal in a court filing on Wednesday, jointly requesting the US appeals court in San

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Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 21:58:55

As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia's biggest bank is scrambling to rehire 45 workers after allegedly lying about chatbots besting staff by handling higher call volumes. In a statement Thursday flagged by Bloomberg, Australia's main financial services union, the Finance Sector Union (FSU), claimed a "massive win" for 45 union members whom the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) had replaced with an AI-powered "voice bot." The FSU noted tha

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Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 03:49:37

As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia's biggest bank is scrambling to rehire 45 workers after allegedly lying about chatbots besting staff by handling higher call volumes. In a statement Thursday flagged by Bloomberg, Australia's main financial services union, the Finance Sector Union (FSU), claimed a "massive win" for 45 union members whom the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) had replaced with an AI-powered "voice bot." The FSU noted tha

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The Open-Office Trap (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Maria Konnikova 2025-11-09 09:16:39

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the m

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The Open-Office Trap

news.ycombinator.com Maria Konnikova 2025-11-10 03:16:39

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the m

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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-13 17:22:39

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a “Liberated Zone” encampment and said they had changed its name from East Campus Plaza to “The Mar

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I'm Worried It Might Get Bad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 11:25:48

I'm starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon. Not like in a year or two, but maybe in a few months. As in spontaneous recession type of thing. In the US mostly, but perhaps globally. It sounds irrational to me as well as I think it or type it. But I can't shake the feeling, so I want to try to write it all down to see how rational it looks on paper. A list of things that are troubling me In no real order, here are the various things I'm stressing about. I know a ton of reall

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Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-12-01 02:31:06

Ford said Monday it will invest $2 billion to transform its Louisville Assembly Plant into a factory capable of making a new generation of affordable EVs, starting with a mid-sized pickup truck with a base price of $30,000 that is slated to launch in 2027. This is not a standard factory upgrade. To reduce the cost of manufacturing, Ford has upended the moving assembly line system launched by its founder Henry Ford more than 112 years ago. The automaker’s willingness to change the century-old s

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AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-02 03:21:01

What jobs, exactly, is so-called "artificial intelligence" supposed to revolutionize, and for whose benefit? The answers to those rarely-asked questions have become increasingly clear in recent months, as the looming threat of AI automation appears to be taking a concrete toll on the workforce. The bombshell July jobs report has finally confirmed what many US workers have been feeling for months: it's almost impossible to find meaningful employment anymore. With just 73,000 nonfarm jobs added

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Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-04 11:15:00

Job hunting is a fresh kind of hell. Hours are wasted sifting through open roles, tweaking cover letters, dealing with obtuse recruiters—and that’s all before you get started with potential interviews. Arguably, some of the world’s most prolific job applicants—or at least most persistent—are those of North Korea’s sprawling IT worker schemes. For years, Kim Jong Un’s repressive regime has successfully sent skilled coders abroad where they’re tasked with finding remote work and sending money back

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US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-07 21:11:24

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI and rivals like Google and Anthropic to supply tools to federal workers. The workers will have access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a type of account that includes access to frontier

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Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 23:01:33

Benefits include a 10-percent wage increase over two years and the elimination of crunch time. Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft . This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the company voted to unionize . Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-per

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North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-14 21:15:15

Researchers at security giant CrowdStrike say they have seen hundreds of cases where North Koreans posing as remote IT workers have infiltrated companies to generate money for the regime, marking a sharp increase over previous years. Per CrowdStrike’s latest threat hunting report, the company has identified over 320 incidents over the past 12 months, up by 220% from the year earlier, in which North Koreans gained fraudulent employment at Western companies working remotely as developers. The sc

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“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

news.ycombinator.com Eyal Press 2025-12-17 11:47:27

In 2021, an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers was attached to President Joe Biden’s pandemic-relief package. But the Senate parliamentarian removed the proposal from the bill, on procedural grounds. Bernie Sanders, then the Budget Committee chairman, forced a vote on the bill anyway, with the provision included. This decision sparked a furor among supposedly liberal lawmakers, according to Ari Rabin-Havt, S

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The End of Work as We Know It

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-28 20:19:04

For centuries, work has defined us. It has given us identity, purpose, and status in society. But what happens when work, our source of income, itself begins to disappear? Not because of war, depression, or outsourcing, but because of algorithms. What does it mean to work in an AI-driven economy? I spent this month of July interviewing several experts from diverse corners of the labor landscape. Through these conversations, a complex and often contradictory picture emerges, one filled with both

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New Study Bolsters Public Health Case for a Four-Day Work Week

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-10 16:05:16

For many of us, Monday is the start of yet another dreary and long work routine. But new trial research out today might highlight a healthier approach to performing our jobs: a permanent four-day workweek. Scientists at Boston College led the study, published Monday in Nature Human Behavior. For six months, the researchers tracked the outcomes of nearly 3,000 workers at 141 businesses after they switched to a four-day workweek with no pay reduction; they also compared them to similar workers at

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Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here?

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-16 23:00:14

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft shared internally that it had saved $500 million in call center costs, thanks to AI -- shortly after the company laid 9,000 people off, the third round in a series of layoffs totaling 15,000. What does this mean for the tech industry -- and job security for humans -- at large? Also: 60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours? Microsoft's layoffs, despite huge profits Acc

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Bernie Sanders Issues Warning About How AI Is Really Being Used

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-20 18:37:38

Senator Bernie Sanders is, like most of us, worried about how AI is going to affect our future — but he's not convinced that the mainstream conversation is capturing the dynamics of how the tech is really affecting the labor market. In an interview with Gizmodo, the Vermont legislator revealed that in the wake of his call for AI to aid in the establishment of a four-day work week, he has taken to speaking with AI experts and CEOs about the technology. Though Sanders refused to name names, the

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Bernie Sanders Reveals the AI ‘Doomsday Scenario’ That Worries Top Experts

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-24 22:08:55

Artificial intelligence promises a future of unprecedented productivity and wealth, but for Senator Bernie Sanders, the crucial question isn’t if the technology will change the world, but who will benefit from that change. As a lifelong champion for workers’ rights, Sanders sees the rapid advancement of AI not just as a technological revolution, but as the next major battleground in the fight against corporate greed and inequality. In a conversation with Gizmodo, the Vermont senator, who reveal

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Bill Gates says Trump's cuts to USAID are devastating: 'It’s not too late to reverse them'

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-25 11:50:25

Bill Gates speaks with Reuters during an interview in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2025. Bill Gates, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, on Friday said it's not too late to reinstate international aid funding that President Donald Trump cut off. The Trump administration placed staff members at the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, on administrative leave in February. The last day of the independent agency was June 30. "The devastating effects of these cuts are entir

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At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says

news.ycombinator.com Aishvarya Kavi 2026-01-27 05:56:19

At least 13 postal workers in Britain died by suicide amid a post office scandal in which about 1,000 postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for theft and other crimes, according to a report released this week as part of an inquiry into the scandal. Wyn Williams, the retired high court judge who is leading the inquiry, wrote in the report, published on Tuesday, that by his estimation, more than 10,000 people were eligible for some kind of redress and that he expected that number to grow. Th

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Treasury sanctions North Korean over IT worker malware scheme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-01 11:43:11

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned cyber actor Song Kum Hyok for his association with North Korea's hacking group Andariel and for facilitating IT worker schemes that generated revenue for the Pyongyang regime. Considered a sub-cluster of the Lazarus group linked to North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the Andariel state actor is focused mostly on financially-motivated operations like ransomware (Maui, Play) and cryptocurrency heists. Song Kum Hyok has been identified as a

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Heavy AI use at work has a surprising relationship to burnout, new study finds

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-01 11:25:00

Alexmia/Getty Images The adoption of AI tools in the workplace is making employees more productive, but new research from freelance hiring firm Upwork suggests it might also be hurting their mental health. Following a survey of 2,500 workers (including executives, full-time employees, and freelancers) across multiple countries, the research showed that the most devoted users of AI tools, including agents, are also 88% more likely to experience burnout and twice as likely to quit, compared to t

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I want to leave tech: what do I do?

news.ycombinator.com Conjure Utopia 2026-02-09 10:58:49

Let’s say you’re working in tech and you have a technical role: you’re a programmer, a graphic or UI/UX designer, a sysadmin, maybe even a product manager. Let’s say you want to leave, change career, and do something more meaningful with your skills. Your motivations may vary: you feel the tech industry produces nothing of value, or maybe you have the legitimate suspicion that what you build helps bomb innocent people somewhere. You might want to leave because of the individualistic culture tha

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Uber drivers in British Columbia, Canada have unionized

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-12 16:24:34

Uber drivers in British Columbia, Canada have joined a union and are now seeking the first collective deal for ride-share drivers in the country, according to Bloomberg. Drivers from Greater Victoria, in particular, have joined UFCW 1518, the province's largest private sector union, which currently represents over 28,000 workers across multiple sectors. "The organizing victory represents a new chapter for app-based workers, demonstrating that all workers deserve a voice in their working conditio

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Amazon Reaches Automation Milestone by Deploying Its Millionth Robot

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 10:48:00

Amazon's fleet of warehouse robots just hit a new milestone. The company announced Monday that it deployed its millionth bot to begin operations at a fulfillment center in Japan. Amazon's ambitions for robot use have long surpassed the company utilizing them for delivery service. The business juggernaut is the world's leading manufacturer of mobile robotics, and aims to sell them to you for use at home as well -- if you have $1,600 to spare. The robotic workers operate in over 300 Amazon wareh

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TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

TikTok Shifts to AI Moderation With Mass Layoffs

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

Bank Fires Workers in Favor of AI Chatbot, Rehires Them After Chatbot Is Terrible at the Job

Elon Musk and X reach settlement with axed Twitter workers

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

The Open-Office Trap (2014)

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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

I'm Worried It Might Get Bad

Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?

Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers

US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

The End of Work as We Know It

New Study Bolsters Public Health Case for a Four-Day Work Week

Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here?

Bernie Sanders Issues Warning About How AI Is Really Being Used

Bernie Sanders Reveals the AI ‘Doomsday Scenario’ That Worries Top Experts

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Heavy AI use at work has a surprising relationship to burnout, new study finds

I want to leave tech: what do I do?

Uber drivers in British Columbia, Canada have unionized

Amazon Reaches Automation Milestone by Deploying Its Millionth Robot

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