… Snap had about 5,261 full-time employees as of December 2025, and now joins the growing list of tech companies that have already announced significant layoffs this year, including Meta, Amazon, Oracle, GoPro, and Jack Dorsey’s Block. “Last fall, I described Snap as facing a crucible moment, requiri… …
… The story of the tech industry over the next decade will be the reckoning brought on by its workforce. Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. …
… Gunasena said the restructuring will ensure that volunteer requests will be fulfilled by a variety of teams with expertise in different areas, and that it will seek to place the six Community Tech employees in other roles; if none are found, they’ll be laid off next month. …
… Here’s what Microsoft is offering long-serving employees to voluntarily retire. I managed to get some details on Microsoft’s voluntary retirement offer to long-serving employees this week. …
… That never quite happened, but OpenAI did tell its employees last month that its deal with Microsoft had “also limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are — for many that’s Amazon Bedrock.” Microsoft’s renegotiated deal with OpenAI allows the AI startup to bring its models, Codex, and ot… …
… The European Union is currently debating a revision to the AI Act, and though the EU countries and the European Parliament were unable to reach an agreement in the most recent negotiations, whatever does end up coming out of that legislation will have a direct impact on how frontier AI models are d… …
… The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta employees on Monday reassigning 7,000 of them, and said that “As org leaders worked on the changes, many of them incorporated AI native design principles into their new org structures.” The memo told employees to work remotely on W… …
… Sachs, who chairs Maine’s House Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, said her legislation was never about banning data centers. “This bill was about creating the playbook,” she said. “And we were told, ‘Don’t worry your pretty little heads about it, data centers are not coming to Maine anyti… …
… Former OpenAI employees and people close to both companies have been watching this particular lawsuit with a close eye, since the outcome of a jury trial could have affected how OpenAI runs its business and controls its quickly advancing technology. …
… Which is also AI, but in a very different way. Physical world AI. Yeah. You were on Diary of a CEO, and you said the employees at Uber have created an AI version of Dara to practice presenting and pitching to. Is that real and how close are we to AI replacing the CEO? …