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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Felisha Case, a former technical program manager at LinkedIn who was laid off in May. She’s 40 and lives in the Denver area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.A week before I was laid off from LinkedIn, a…
Astana is more than 6,000 miles from Silicon Valley, but some of tech’s biggest names are bullish on the Kazakh capital.On Sunday, former Coinbase tech chief and Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan said that his live-in startup community has officially opened in Kazakhstan, in another vote of confidence for the…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced a one-year ban on AI in schools, which he said could affect 600,000 public school students. And the tech world has a lot to say.On Wednesday, Mamdani proposed a moratorium that would ban the use of AI in schools for children from 2-K…
Union security workers for the California offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other tech companies announced on Wednesday that they had authorized a strike.The security personnel, who are seeking better pay, are employed by staffing agencies that provide building security for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Salesforce, the SEIU-United Service Workers…
While tech companies are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, they are also competing fiercely for AI talent — and the AI boom is reshaping the choices available to workers.Alongside established giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon, frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic now offer the chance to work at…
If you work in tech, your manager might still care about your career. They just might not have enough time to do much about it.Across tech, the Great Flattening has meant fewer managers overseeing larger teams and racing to keep up as the industry remakes itself around AI.The result can…
The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese open-source model to do it.Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, and it’s based on Snowdon, which was built by “realigning” an open-source…
Is it a Chinese Psy-Op? Are Americans ignorant? Or are tech bros just completely out of touch?Tech leaders across the country are full of ideas about why Americans are in a furor against data centers, positing theories on social media that range from practical to patronizing.”Most explanations of why datacenters…
When Vinit Juneja started as a software engineer at Amazon last year, he knew he might leave one day for a more attractive role.But after watching colleagues lose their jobs during two rounds of layoffs that eliminated roughly 30,000 positions at Amazon, another factor took on new importance: job security.”I…
Tech analyst Ben Thompson says requiring AI companies to be transparent about the content their models produce is missing the mark.Thompson tore into the European Union AI Act, which Anthropic cited as the reason it will add watermarks to content in Claude-generated files and text.In his widely read “Stratechery” newsletter,…
