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Tim Newman

@tnewmsblues
15 posts
2026-01-28
True, except these stores served the purpose of data collection to refine Amazon's Just Walk Out technology, which is now used in other venues and will now be inflicted upon the company's fulfillment center workers.  In other words, luxury surveillance!  —  www.aboutamazon.com/news/company... …
2026-01-28 View on X
GeekWire

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods

Amazon's homegrown grocery stores are getting shelved.  —  The company said Tuesday morning that it's closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations …

True, except these stores served the purpose of data collection to refine Amazon's Just Walk Out technology, which is now used in other venues and will now be inflicted upon the company's fulfillment center workers.  In other words, luxury surveillance!  —  www.aboutamazon.com/news/company... …
2026-01-28 View on X
Australian Financial Review

Amazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders

Amazon will deliver fresh food to homes in Australia for the first time after striking an agreement with Harris Farm Markets …

OpenAI's Sam Altman:  —  “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
2026-01-28 View on X
New York Times

Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”

2026-01-27
OpenAI's Sam Altman:  —  “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
2026-01-27 View on X
New York Times

Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”

Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.

OpenAI's Sam Altman:  —  “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
2026-01-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments after border agents killed Alex Pretti; Rabois said Pretti was committing a “felony”

To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …

2025-12-29
New from @noamscheiber.bsky.social, featuring @emilymazo.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @alphabetworkersunion.org & many more: “tech worker activism has continued amid the crackdown, albeit more cautiously”  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
2025-12-29 View on X
New York Times

How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage

@kickstarterunited.org @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Veena Dubal / @veenadubal : “Still, Ms. Redwine, the Kickstarter employee turned labor organizer, said layoffs and pressure from m...

2025-12-14
“Road repairs, bridge reconstructions and sewer overhauls are at risk of getting delayed as the data center boom sucks up resources in the construction market.”  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
2025-12-14 View on X
Bloomberg

The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers

This is absolute madness.  [embedded post] Danny Page / @danny.page : Opportunity Cost - noun: the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.  —...

2025-11-10
“Foody envisions Mercor pays tens of billions to contractors each day as the training of machines becomes a dominant labor category.  To critics, that sounds like a dystopian gig economy.  But Mercor sees it as meeting demands of a future that's already taking shape.” sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/s...
2025-11-10 View on X
The San Francisco Standard

A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is building a “new category of work”; Mercor hit a $500M ARR in September and pays contractors ~$1.5M/day

Plus, perimenopause apps, Musk's mammoth pay package … X: Kevin V. Nguyen / @kevinnguyen_89 : There are a lot of young people in their early 20s running around in San Francisco rn ...

“We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure”  —  www.fastcompany.com/91435192/ cha...
2025-11-10 View on X
Fast Company

Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, are likely responsible for the economy-wide layoffs

For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers.

2025-10-22
Do things go well when Meta says it's not moving-fast-&-breaking-things enough?  —  “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision & each person will be more load-bearing & have more scope & impact” -chief AI officer Alexandr Wang www.axios.com/2025/10/22/m...
2025-10-22 View on X
Axios

Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs out of several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to create a more agile operation

Meta is cutting several hundred roles from its AI unit even as it continues to hire for its newer TBD Lab, Axios has learned.

2025-10-03
“Meta made a change to its Fundamental AI Research lab that rubbed members of the group the wrong way: FAIR, as the group is known, would have to undergo additional review of its research before publishing it, according to two people familiar with the matter.” www.theinformation.com/articles/ met...
2025-10-03 View on X
The Information

Sources: in recent weeks, Meta changed FAIR's publishing rules to require extra review, angering staff; Yann LeCun considered resigning over Meta's AI changes

The Information :

2025-05-19
Important story from a nurse in NC about how AI and algorithmic systems are showing up in hospitals and health care.  —  “It's alarming from a nurse's standpoint, because we don't want to look at our patients as numbers and bodies in a bed.”  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...  [images]
2025-05-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Eight workers, from a nurse dealing with hospital discharge planning algorithms to a salon owner explaining AI hairstyle photos, share how AI changed their work

“It's alarming from a nurse's standpoint, because we don't want to look at our patients as numbers and bodies in a bed.”  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...  [images] Bruno J. Na...

2025-04-11
“In truth, nate relied heavily on teams of human workers—primarily located overseas... SANIGER used hundreds of contractors, or ‘purchasing assistants,’ in a call center located in the Philippines to manually complete purchases occurring over the nate app.” www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
2025-04-11 View on X
TechCrunch

The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO, Albert Saniger, with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on workers in the Philippines; Nate had raised $50M+

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience …

Now hold on: pop the hood on quite a few AI companies and it sure seems you'll find many more “purporting artificial intelligence capabilities while covertly employing personnel to satisfy the illusion of technological automation”  —  www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
2025-04-11 View on X
TechCrunch

The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO, Albert Saniger, with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on workers in the Philippines; Nate had raised $50M+

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience …

2025-01-26
Google spends huge $ lobbying ("almost $11 million from July-Sept, nearly 90x more than the same period last year, making it highest-spending lobbyist employer in CA in 3rd quarter") calmatters.org/politics/cap...  Now it's using “AI education” as a policy influence tool too  —  bsky.app/profile/tech... …
2025-01-26 View on X
Reuters

A look at Google's plans to shape public perception and policies on AI, including building out educational programs, ahead of a global wave of AI regulation

Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, already facing an unprecedented regulatory onslaught, is looking to shape public perception and policies …