Around 500 World of Warcraft workers vote to unionize with the CWA, bringing the number of unionized US gaming employees at Microsoft to around 1,750
World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor's new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by around 500 employees.
Alphabet Union says Wednesday's layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people, making it the largest round of cuts since January 2023
A spokesman for a union representing workers at Google's owner, Alphabet, said Wednesday's layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people …
Google lays off hundreds of staff working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as the company explores integrating newer AI tech
Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number …
Microsoft partners with 60 unions representing 12.5M workers to create “an open dialogue” on AI's impact on them, and signs a ZeniMax staff contract on AI use
Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs
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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Senator Schumer's first AI Insight Forum on September 13
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Sources reveal how contractors audit Bard's answers in subjects ranging from medication doses to state laws, sometimes with deadlines as short as three minutes
As algorithms take on an increasingly big share … Bluesky: Emily Gorcenski / @emily.gorcen.ski : In the United States, this is considered “a substantial improvement over most docto...
An investigation finds Google Maps isn't proactively deleting location data consistently when users visit abortion clinics, after Google pledged to in July 2022
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YouTube Music contractors from Cognizant vote to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union; Alphabet is appealing a ruling that Google is their joint employer
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg :
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $69.8B, net income down 8% YoY to $15.1B, Other Bets revenue down 35% YoY to $288M, and Other Bets loss up 47% YoY
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 25, 2023 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
Alphabet's board authorizes a $70B buyback of the company's Class A and Class C shares, the same amount the board authorized for repurchase in April 2022
An NLRB director rules that Google is a “joint employer” with YouTube subcontractor Cognizant and must bargain with Cognizant workers if they vote to unionize
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg :
Sundar Pichai says Google will make LLMs like LaMDA available “in the coming weeks and months”, and users will be able to use them “as a companion to search”
Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported fourth-quarter results that narrowly missed analysts' expectations …
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B, and employees up 22% YoY to 190,234
up 32% YoY. It also cut its losses significantly, from $890M to $480M. https://www.cnbc.com/... Anthony DeRosa / @anthony : Alphabet earnings: MISS on both top and bottom. The comp...
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut...
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in low traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Plaid lays off approximately 260 staff, or ~20% of its workforce, citing “macroeconomic changes”; the company raised $425M at a ~$13.4B valuation in April 2021
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Internal emails: Google sets rules for hosting HQ guest speakers, like making a business case and considering company goals, after row over an Indian historian
Paresh Dave / Reuters : Tweets: @alphabetworkers , @anuradhasays , and @profdilipmandal Tweets: @alphabetworkers : WORKER WIN! We've been organizing to end caste-based discriminat...
Activist investor TCI, which has a $6B+ stake in Alphabet, calls on the company to aggressively reduce headcount and cut costs in its long-term bets like Waymo
Hedge fund says company would be more efficient with fewer employees — Activist hedge fund TCI Fund Management called …