Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year
… The deal still needs to be voted on by the union’s members, but a union leader told Reuters that he expects it to be approved.
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Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts
… The union bid includes specific demands that staffers want Google to address, which include making a clear commitment to not pursue the development of weapons, technologies, or contracts that harm or surveil people; negotiations around the use of AI that “materially affect our roles, workloads, or … …
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
… Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees’ jobs and workflow. …
Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike
… In recent months, Wikimedia staff had announced their intent to unionize, and some suggested the foundation was specifically laying off staff involved in the union drive. …
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
… 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… …
Companies weaponize TOS against you
… I will say, though, that awkward workarounds have been a fact of human existence, and as profoundly unfair in many ways as our legal system is, and probably more unfair than it was a few decades ago, it is vastly better than what we had 60 years ago when we effectively had an apartheid state in the… …
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
… It’s one thing if you’re a news organization with a union. …