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 …
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 …
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”
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.
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 …
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...
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. —...
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 ...
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.
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.
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
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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...
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 …
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 …
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 …