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Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company'

Gig economy platform Fiverr is laying off 250 employees as it pivots to being an "AI-first company," CEO Micha Kaufman shared in an essay on X. The move affects around 30 percent of the company's staff, The Register writes, and it's not uncommon among tech companies in 2025. Duolingo announced similar plans to become "AI-first" in April. Kaufman describes this process as returning to "startup mode" and writes that his ultimate goal is to turn Fiverr into "an AI-first company that's leaner, fast

Charlie Kaufman Holds Hollywood Responsible for Today’s ‘Terrible’ World

Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman’s got a lot to say about the state of the world—and why he thinks Hollywood is at least partially to blame for it. In a new interview with The Guardian, the mind behind 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and this year’s short How to Shoot a Ghost said the film industry has “everything to do with [why] the world is in a terrible, terrible situation right now.” As part of said industry, Kaufman considers it a personal responsibility to “not put garbage into th

Charlie Kaufman Returns to Genre Filmmaking With Ghostly New Short

Charlie Kaufman, the director behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Human Nature (2001) and Being John Malkovich (1999), is finally returning to genre filmmaking with a new short, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled How to Shoot a Ghost, the movie is set to premier September 1st in Venice, Italy. As THR notes, “rather than one of his delightfully wry, pretzel-logic-tangled ruminations on life and mortality,” (ie, Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), I’m Thinking

The Final ‘Toxic Avenger’ Trailer Is a Goofy, Retro Call to Arms

After two years of uncertainty whether it’d come out, the next Toxic Avenger movie is hitting theaters this upcoming week. But in case you’re not aware, the folks at BloodyDisgusting—a subsidiary of Cineverse, the film’s distributor—commissioned a trailer that it hopes will make you, in its own words, “show the fuck up.” This new “grindhouse” trailer comes courtesy of Wilson Cleveland, a producer and actor who’s previously made fan trailers for Weapons and other films. Cleveland’s approach for

Roblox is locking down sexual content and access to ‘adult’ locations after lawsuits

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Roblox is updating its policies prohibiting romantic or sexual content to also forbid “content, settings, or behavior that implies sexual activity,” according to a Friday post from chief safety officer Matt Kaufman (emphasis Kaufman’s). The changes follow recent lawsuits against the compa