Published on: 2025-04-19 23:48:42
A judge has paused the termination of nearly 1,500 employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) while she considers whether the Trump administration violated a court order to avoid mass layoffs. As CNN reports, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the mass reduction in force was “not going to happen” for now and scheduled an evidentiary hearing for April 28th. The ruling should temporarily prevent the CFPB from being nearly eliminated, a move that CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:27:51
More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday amid a broader Trump administration shakeup at the independent government agency, sources tell WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in total at the CFPB. The mass reduction in force, or RIF, comes nearly a month after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from removing probationary employees at the CFPB and other agencies. On Fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 17:57:23
Them's fightin' words. Silent Riot A former OpenAI employee is joining Elon Musk's campaign against CEO Sam Altman — and he's got a lot to say about his former boss. After jumping ship to Anthropic, which was cofounded by former OpenAI-ers over AI safety and ethics concerns, researcher Todor Markov is now claiming in a new legal filing that his ex-boss is, essentially, a really bad dude. The root of Markov's complaint, as he explained in his portion of a lengthy amicus brief that also includ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 06:45:23
Google apparently has one weird trick to hoard its talent from poachers: paying them to not work. As Business Insider reports, some United Kingdom-based employees at Google's DeepMind AI lab are paid to do nothing for six months — or, in fewer cases, up to a year — after they quit their jobs. Known as "garden leave," this type of cushy clause is the luckier stepsister to so-called "noncompete" agreements, which prohibit employees and contractors from working with a competitor for a designated
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:23:29
'We've focused on becoming more nimble and operating more effectively,' the company said. As it said it would do earlier this year, Google has laid off hundreds of employees from its Platforms and Devices division, The Information reported. That part of the company, which employs over 25,000 people, houses its Pixel phones and smartwatches, Nest devices, the Android and ChromeOS platforms and Chrome browser. In January, Google offered buyouts to let them leave as part of a "voluntary exit plan.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:06:32
Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle to make new products was leading some people inside its lavish Silicon Valley headquarters to wonder whether the company had somehow lost its magic. The tariffs, which were introduced April 2, caused Apple to lose $773 billion in market capitalization in four days and briefly lose its standing as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. But investors had alrea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 20:47:13
Google has reversed a policy forbidding employees from discussing its antitrust woes following a settlement with workers. The company sent a notice to U.S. employees last week saying it rescinded "the rule requesting that workers refrain from commenting internally or externally about the on-going antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by the U.S. Department of Justice," according to correspondence viewed by CNBC. Google settled with the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents company employee
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 07:50:00
In context: Microsoft has fired the two employees involved in a protest during the company's recent 50th-anniversary celebration. The termination was attributed to misconduct, as stated in an internal email. Both individuals had previously sent mass emails to thousands of employees, urging the company to end its contracts with the Israeli government. One employee was let go by Microsoft Canada, while the second had already submitted his resignation prior to the demonstration. One of the employe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 14:42:00
In a nutshell: Google's DeepMind is enforcing strict noncompete clauses and extended notice periods to limit its U.K.-based AI talent from joining competitors, a tactic that underscores the fierce competition for skilled professionals in the field. The measures have drawn criticism from former employees and industry insiders who argue they stifle innovation and limit career mobility in the rapidly evolving AI sector. Nando de Freitas, a former DeepMind director now serving as Vice President of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 19:42:00
In a nutshell: Google's DeepMind is employing strict noncompete clauses and extended notice periods to limit its U.K.-based AI talent from joining competitors, a tactic that underscores the fierce competition for skilled professionals in the field. The measures have drawn criticism from former employees and industry insiders who argue they stifle innovation and limit career mobility in the rapidly evolving AI sector. Nando de Freitas, a former DeepMind director now serving as Vice President of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 15:00:00
Rain, a startup offering an employer-integrated earned wage access (EWA) app coupled with financial-wellness features like overdraft alerts and spending trends, has raised $75 million in an all-equity Series B round. The round was led by Prosus at a post-money valuation of $340 million. Rain plans to use the new funds to help it add credit card and saving products to its roster, co-founder CEO Alex Bradford, exclusively tells TechCrunch. Around 35% of households in the U.S. with an annual inco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 23:58:13
In a recent memo to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made a bold policy change: teams must demonstrate why AI can’t perform a job before they’re permitted to ask for more headcount and resources. “Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI,” Lütke wrote in the memo, which he shared publicly on social media Monday. “What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team? This question can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 03:55:25
Microsoft celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary on Friday with a splashy event that featured all three of its current and former CEOs, but it did not come without surprises. The Verge reported earlier that an employee by the name Ibtihal Aboussad disrupted a presentation by the company’s head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, alleging the company has been complicit in genocide by selling its technology to Israel. “Shame on you,” said Aboussad, speaking directly to Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 03:00:28
New 25 percent tariffs on all foreign car imports into the United States went into effect this week as President Trump ignited his new trade war. It has caused something of a rush at dealerships around the country as customers descend on existing stock in an attempt to beat looming price increases of thousands of dollars. Now we're starting to see how the automakers are reacting. Employee pricing for all Ford is in the rather enviable position of having the least exposure to the new vehicle ta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 07:30:00
Thatch, a startup that aims to transform the health insurance experience for employers and employees alike, has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Index Ventures led the financing, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), General Catalyst, SemperVirens, PeopleTech Partners, The General Partnership, and new investor ADP Ventures. In total since its October 2021 inception, Thatch has raised $84.5 million in equ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 18:26:28
Last week, Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Trump administration would hack off nearly a quarter of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees critical agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The downsizing includes pushing out about 10,000 full-time
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 15:26:28
Last week, Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Trump administration would hack off nearly a quarter of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees critical agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The downsizing includes pushing out about 10,000 full-time
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 03:29:05
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals. Ahead of the layoffs, Automattic’s website listed 1,744 employees, which means north of 270 people may have lost their jobs. (Automattic was asked to confirm this number but has not responded as of the time of publication.) The post, which was also shared wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 03:04:28
CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and later became an inventory monetization platform for clothing retailers, is facing financial difficulties, the company confirmed to TechCrunch following a report by Axios. Citing a letter from the board, Axios reported that the company is almost out of money, CEO Christine Hunsicker resigned from her CEO role and the board, and the company has involved law enforcement to investigate alleged financial misco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 09:29:52
The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. In communities across the US, the cuts threaten student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to popular digital services, such as the ebook app Libby. On Monday, managers at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) informed 77 employees—virtually the agency’s entire staff—
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 20:00:56
Eidos-Montreal announced today via LinkedIn that it was laying off 75 employees, adding the company to the ever-growing list of game developers and publishers that are still announcing layoffs in 2025. According to its announcement, this is due to “one of our mandates” coming to an end, which could mean that a project these employees were working on has either finished or moved on to a new phase of production. The announcement went on to say that Eidos would be unable to keep these employees on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 18:11:54
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A new article has charted the early development of Google’s Bard and Gemini chatbots. It turns out that early prototypes of Bard suggested ‘comically bad’ racial stereotypes in its answers. These racial stereotypes also extended to early prototypes of Gemini’s image generator. Google’s Gemini is one of the most popular generative AI chatbots on the market right now, and Google has been pushing it in various services. Now, an extensive article has cov
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 16:03:02
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources — including investors and current and former employees — told TechCrunch that the company has experienced financial struggles, largely of its own making. Numerous people in the U.S. and U.K. told TechCrunch that the situation has become so tenuous that 11x’s lead Series B investor, Andreessen Horowitz, may even be considering legal action. However, a spokespers
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 19:19:00
In brief: It hasn't been a good week for Tesla as U.S. safety regulators issued a recall for nearly all Cybertrucks on the road. In an effort to stabilize morale, CEO Elon Musk held an unconventional meeting to reassure employees and address the company's challenges, including a significant decline in stock price. The move marks the eighth safety-related recall for the Tesla-made vehicles since deliveries began just over a year ago. Initiated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administratio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 22:04:45
Tesla's financial health isn't looking great lately, to put it mildly. Earlier this week, four top senior executives at Tesla dumped their stocks amidst an ongoing freefall caused by poor quarterly sales, tons of recalls, and global protests against CEO Elon Musk. Now, after the loss of some of his highest-moneyed investors, Musk is pleading with Tesla employees not to do the same. "There are times when there are rocky moments, a little bit of stormy weather, but I’m here to tell you the futur
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 02:00:32
During Elon Musk's two months in Washington, D.C., Tesla shares have been on a precipitous decline, losing over 40% of their value. Protests and campaigns against Tesla, Musk and his work in the Trump White House have erupted around the world. Criminal acts of vandalism and arson have also targeted some Tesla electric vehicles, showrooms and charging stations in a string of incidents in the U.S. and across Europe. At an all-hands meeting with Tesla employees on Thursday evening, Musk addressed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 18:43:24
On Thursday, Stephen Ehikian, the acting administrator of the General Services Administration, hosted his first all-hands meeting with GSA staff since his appointment to the position by President Donald Trump. The auditorium was packed, with hundreds of employees attending the meeting in person and thousands more tuning in online. While the tone of the live event remained polite, the chat that accompanied the live stream was a different story. “‘My door is always open’ but we’ve been told we ca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 10:54:14
Agdekon Media Visuals/Getty Images Companies are striving to take advantage of AI to improve their workflows and stay competitive. But many are struggling to figure out exactly how to integrate AI into their business. That challenge is leading to tension with employees who are eager to use AI to make their work faster and easier. Also: Want a top engineering job in 2025? Here are the skills you need A new report released this week by generative AI company Writer looks at the disconnect betwee
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 22:21:21
Microsoft said Wednesday that company veteran Amy Coleman will become its new executive vice president chief people officer, replacing Kathleen Hogan, who has held the position for the past decade. Hogan will remain an executive vice president but move to a newly established Office of Strategy and Transformation, which is an expansion of the office of the CEO. She will join Microsoft's group of top executives, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Coleman is stepping into a major role, give
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 21:30:01
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favoured white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers. The accord with Google, a unit of Alphabet, won preliminary approval last week from Judge Charles Adams of the Santa Clara county superior court in California. He called the settlement fair, reasonable and “a good result for the class” of at least 6,632 Google employees in California between 15
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