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Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 employees as the cybersecurity company says it is reorganizing for the “agentic AI era,” according to a memo sent to staff on Thursday. Loading audio narration… The cuts came hours after the company reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, though shares…
Federal prosecutors on Monday charged 31-year-old Cole Allen, the suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, with attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. Loading audio narration… That rarely used charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.The seven-page criminal complaint also includes two gun charges: transportation of a…
Disney is shuffling its streaming commerce and data teams as a top executive exits. Loading audio narration… Ajay Arora, Disney’s SVP of product management and engineering, is leaving the company on April 30, product and tech chief Adam Smith told employees late last week in a memo obtained by Business…
Meta announced to employees that it is planning on laying off around 10% of the entire company on May 20, according to an email. Loading audio narration… Meta currently employs over 78,000 people worldwide, so the move will affect approximately 7,800 of the company’s staff. The company is also eliminating…
Tim Cook wants you to know he’ll remember your emails. Loading audio narration… The CEO, who announced on Monday he’ll be transitioning out of the top job on September 1, reflected on his time at Apple in a letter posted to the company’s website.”For the past 15 years I’ve started…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tina Nenshi Gada, a 31-year-old user experience designer based in Washington, DC, who has worked at Citibank, Vanguard, and as a contractor for the World Bank Group. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When I…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is once again the talk of Silicon Valley. Loading audio narration… Over the weekend, Palantir released a 22-point summary of Karp’s 320-page book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” that the billionaire tech CEO co-wrote with the defense technology…
Snap has become the latest tech company to announce sweeping layoffs. Loading audio narration… In a memo to employees released in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said Snap would cut 1,000 employees, about 16% of its global workforce, citing “rapid advancements” in AI and “small squads” using…
Khartoon Weiss, the former lead executive for TikTok’s North American ads business, is joining Google. Loading audio narration… She’ll serve as vice president of US Mid Market Sales (MMS), Commerce, according to a memo sent to Google employees on Monday.MMS typically handles medium-sized advertising clients for Google. The commerce team…
Micro dramas are entering their Hollywood phase as new players aim to give the format the star treatment.The latest example is Tommy Harper, a prolific film producer whose credits include “Star Wars” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”Harper is going small for his next act. He’s launching VeYou, an app for the…
