Amazon is laying off hundreds of employees at its studio division as well as its subsidiary Twitch to reduce costs, the latest in a wave of new job cuts hitting the tech industry. Twitch, a video streaming platform, will cut just over 500 roles, or 35 percent of its work force, according to a blog…
Meta faced an uproar from two of its most prominent corporate advertisers – Walmart and Tinder parent Match Group – after they caught wind that Instagram and Facebook were running ads next to content that sexualized underage users, according to an amended lawsuit filed Tuesday. In one exchange from early November, Match Group told Meta…
In an email sent to staff at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, senior vice president of the department Mike Hopkins wrote: “We’ve identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain areas while increasing our investments and focus on content and product initiatives that deliver the most impact.”
OpenAI is back in action after its leadership tumult, debuting two product and service launches on Wednesday: the GPT Store — OpenAI’s answer to the App Store, which allows users to list personalized chatbots, or GPTs, they’ve built for others to download — and ChatGPT Team, a new option for businesses. ChatGPT Team, the smaller…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The newsletter platform Substack rose to prominence with a permissive approach to online speech, attracting big-name writers who felt “canceled” by the mainstream media for their conservative or libertarian rhetoric. Criticized in December for tolerating Nazis and white supremacists on its platform, Substack doubled down,…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Language-learning app Duolingo has been steadily firing contract writers and translators, replacing them with artificial intelligence, in one of the most high-profile instances yet of a company getting rid of human workers in favor of AI. In several waves of layoffs last year, including in…
Representations of cryptocurrency Bitcoin are placed on a PC motherboard in this illustration taken June 16, 2023. Dado Ruvic | Reuters St. Moritz, SWITZERLAND — Top players in the crypto industry gathered at a lavish hotel in elegant Swiss ski town St. Moritz ahead of the Wednesday start of the Crypto Finance Conference. Many were…
The new Tesla Model 3+ is on sale at a Tesla store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, September 26, 2023. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tesla on Wednesday rolled out the restyled version of its Model 3 compact sedan in North America at unchanged prices, months after the vehicle attracted healthy demand upon launch…
Apple CEO Tim Cook on doing business in China Apple CEO Tim Cook on doing business in China 03:46 Beijing — Chinese state-backed experts have found a way to identify people who use Apple’s encrypted AirDrop messaging service, according to the Beijing municipal government. AirDrop allows users to send content to Apple devices in close proximity…
When Microsoft opened an advanced research lab in Beijing in 1998, it was a time of optimism about technology and China. The company hired hundreds of researchers for the lab, which pioneered Microsoft’s work in speech, image and facial recognition and the kind of artificial intelligence that later gave rise to online chatbots like ChatGPT….
