Published on: 2025-04-22 15:31:49
Companies around America have started cutting DEI programs and eliminating DEI commitments from public documents in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Department of Justice to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize,” DEI programs deemed illegal in private sector companies that receive federal funds. Trump has signed an executive order banning DEI in the federal government with the approval of his
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Codeium, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant tool Windsurf, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from its OpenAI Startup Fund. The acquisition could jeopardize the credibility of the OpenAI Startup Fund, given that it is one of Cursor’s biggest investors, said a person
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Tech company Yahoo has removed several pages and other sections from its corporate website in recent months relating to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, TechCrunch has learned. A section of Yahoo’s website that was previously dedicated to DEI no longer loads and instead redirects to the company’s executive leadership page. A previous version of Yahoo’s leadership page from late 2024 touted language mentioning diversity and inclusion but does not appear on Yahoo’s current web
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 23:34:04
Its removal seems like a direct response to the threats from Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr, who said companies should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination” during an interview with Bloomberg last month. He suggested that major deals, such as T-Mobile’s plan to acquire most of US Cellular, won’t happen if DEI is still in play. T-Mobile executive vice president Mark Nelson has already indicated that the company plans on complying with Carr’s orders.
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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends the inauguration of a new hub in France dedicated to the artificial intelligence sector, at the Google France headquarters in Paris, France, on Feb. 15, 2024. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters After Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February, CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the matter with his employees at a company all-hands meeting. "We believe in building a representative workforce," Pichai said, accordin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 00:33:40
NASA has scrubbed two graphic novels featuring female astronauts from its website, in a move that is in apparent alignment with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI stance. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies are those that generally promote fair treatment of people of all backgrounds. The Trump administration is not a fan of DEI—on the first day of Trump’s second term, the White House called DEI programs “illegal and immoral” and declared that the government is “committed to serving
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When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room and darts over to a whiteboard. He scrawls charts with swooping hockey-stick curves that show how machine intelligence is bending toward the infinite. His hand rises to his curly mop of hair, as if he’s caressing his neurons to forestall a system crash. You can almost feel his bones vibrate as he explains how his company, Anthropic, is unlike other AI model buil
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UnitedHealth Group has scrubbed much of its website mentioning its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, including pulling down blog posts and removing large sections from its website, TechCrunch has learned. According to archived copies of UnitedHealth’s website, several of the company’s web pages dedicated to DEI no longer load and now redirect to a “page not found” error. A section of the company’s career page that used to have a dedicated section for diversity, equity, and inclus
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UnitedHealth Group has scrubbed much of its website mentioning its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, including pulling down blog posts and removing large sections from its website, TechCrunch has learned. According to archived copies of UnitedHealth’s website, several of the company’s web pages dedicated to DEI no longer load and now redirect to a “page not found” error. A section of the company’s career page that used to have a dedicated section for diversity, equity, and inclus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 15:17:32
NASA may be still committed to landing the first woman and person of color on the Moon sometime in 2027 as part of its Artemis III mission — but you wouldn't know it by visiting the agency's landing page for the mission, which no longer includes any mentions of "diversity, equity, or inclusion" (DEI) on president Donald Trump's orders. First spotted by British science journalist Oliver Morton, NASA's DEI purge has reached the page for its Artemis mission, which until at least February 28 includ
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plan
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Ted Lasso was the first big hit on Apple TV+, but the show’s fate has been up in the air since season 3 concluded in May 2023. Initially, we all thought season 3 would be the show’s final season, but there have been a lot of hints recently that a season 4 could happen after all. Now, Jason Sudeikis and Apple have made it official: Ted Lasso season four is in the works. Ted Lasso season 4 is official In an interview on the New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce, Sudeikis confirmed tha
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There ain't a whole lot of places like AFC Richmond, right? Coach Lasso's words have new meaning now that Apple TV Plus announced Ted Lasso season 4 has been greenlit. On Friday, the company shared the series will return to the streaming service, with star Jason Sudeikis reprising his role as the tenderhearted coach. The last time fans saw Ted in season 3, he'd left London and returned home to Wichita, Kansas, to spend more time with his son, and wound up coaching the youth soccer time. Meanwhi
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks they might find unpleasant. Amodei made the provocative remarks during an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, acknowledging that the idea "sounds crazy." "So this is—this is another one of those topics that’s going to make me sound completely insane," Amodei said during the interview. "I think we should at leas
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Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies – and he wants the U.S. government to step in. Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial espionage” and that AI companies, including Anthropic, are almost certainly being targeted. “Many of these algorithmic secrets, there are $100 million secrets that are
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Google has quietly updated the webpage for its Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology (RAI-HCT) team, the team charged with conducting research into AI safety, fairness, and explainability, to scrub mentions of “diversity” and “equity.” A previous version of the page used language such as “marginalized communities,” “diverse,” “underrepresented groups,” and “equity” to describe the RAI-HCT team’s work. That language has been removed, or in some cases replaced with less specific wording (e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 05:34:39
The United States Army is employing a prototype generative artificial intelligence tool to identify references to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) for removal from training materials in line with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump. Officials at the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)—the major command responsible for training soldiers, developing leaders, and shaping the service’s guidelines, strategies, and concepts—are currently using the AI t
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President Trump is attacking Apple today over its stance on DEI policies that the administration has targeted aggressively since entering office. The company’s shareholders on Tuesday rejected an outside proposal to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies after Apple asked investors to vote down the idea. Apple said it does not have hiring quotas for specific demographics but may adjust its policies. “APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT JUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM,” the president
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A hot potato: Big tech companies have been quick to put an end to or cut back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, a response to pressure from Donald Trump and his administration. Pushing back against the trend is Apple, whose shareholders voted down a proposal to dismantle its DEI initiatives this week. However, Trump has now personally urged the company to end these diversity policies. Meta and Google are just two of the tech firms to end their diversity hiring goals and scr
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Apple is holding its annual shareholder meeting today as investors vote on several proposals and hear updates from CEO Tim Cook. Most notably, Apple shareholders rejected an outside proposal calling for the company to end its DEI initiatives. Apple doubles down on DEI As we reported last month, the conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research submitted a shareholder proposal calling on Apple to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The proposal claimed that
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President Trump has calmly suggested that Apple should consider reevaluating its policies around diversity, equity, and inclusion, while making the case that meritocracy could yield better results and reduce workplace division. Wait, scratch that, President Trump has blasted Apple on social media in an all-caps message, demanding that “APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT JUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM.” Apple, the most valuable company in the world, which suggests it must be doing something r
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In Brief Apple shareholders rejected an anti-DEI proposal at its investor meeting Tuesday. The proposal was brought by a conservative group called the National Center for Public Policy Research (NPPR). It asked Apple to end its DEI activities. Boards typically ask shareholders to reject shareholder proposals, and this was one of four such shareholder proposals. This proposal gained national attention, however, because Apple’s recommendation against it comes as other tech companies are trimmin
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CEO of Apple Tim Cook poses as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 9, 2024. Apple shareholders on Tuesday rejected a request to abolish its Inclusion & Diversity program, signaling that investors still see value in the company's diversity programs. The proposal, submitted by the National Center for Public Policy Research, was voted down at Apple's annual shareholder meeting. The proposal pushed Apple to cease its diversity, equ
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Apple is holding its annual shareholder meeting today as investors vote on several proposals and hear updates from CEO Tim Cook. Most notably, Apple shareholders rejected an outside proposal calling for the company to end its DEI initiatives. Apple doubles down on DEI As we reported last month, the conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research submitted a shareholder proposal calling on Apple to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The proposal claimed that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 12:15:00
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity has eliminated its DEI programs and efforts just weeks after assuring staff it would continue supporting DEI efforts, The Guardian reports. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), co-founded by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, will end internal DEI programs and no longer provide “social advocacy funding,” which provided grants for racial equity and immigration reforms. In a staff email obtained by The Guardian, Marc Malandro, the COO of CZI, said the organization
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Codeium, an AI-powered coding startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $2.85 billion valuation, including fresh capital, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. The round is being led by returning investor Kleiner Perkins, the people said. The new round comes just six months after Silicon Valley-based Codeium announced that it had closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst with participation of Kleiner Perkins and Greenoak
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