Sources say staff fear lean years and fewer promotions as traditional career paths at Amazon dry up due to the restructuring campaign.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-06
Amazon employees fewer promotions diminished career paths
Sources: Andy Jassy's campaign to flatten Amazon's middle management raises fears among staff of lean years and fewer promotions, as old career paths dry up
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #5
John Schulman has been credited as one of ChatGPT's leading architects.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
John Schulman ChatGPT
John Schulman, who co-founded OpenAI and has been credited as one of ChatGPT's leading architects, leaves Anthropic, after joining the startup in August 2024
The Information · 2025-02-06 · #33
Sources report Andy Jassy is leading a campaign to flatten Amazon's middle management.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-06
Andy Jassy Amazon middle management
Sources: Andy Jassy's campaign to flatten Amazon's middle management raises fears among staff of lean years and fewer promotions, as old career paths dry up
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #5
Sources report DOGE is being moved from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-06
DOGE Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President
Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while the group moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA
404 Media · 2025-02-06 · #37
Sonos lays off about 200 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
Sonos
Sonos lays off ~200 employees, or 12% of its staff, as it reorganizes to make its product teams “flatter, smaller, and more focused”, weeks after losing its CEO
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #38
Sonos recently lost/ousted its CEO weeks before the announced layoffs.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
Sonos
Sonos lays off ~200 employees, or 12% of its staff, as it reorganizes to make its product teams “flatter, smaller, and more focused”, weeks after losing its CEO
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #38
Sonos' interim CEO says that smaller and more focused teams can yield better results and is guiding the reorganization.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
Interim CEO smaller, more focused teams
Sonos lays off ~200 employees, or 12% of its staff, as it reorganizes to make its product teams “flatter, smaller, and more focused”, weeks after losing its CEO
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #38
The restructuring campaign is reportedly capitalizing on more common return-to-office policies and a cooling technology job market.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-06
Andy Jassy Amazon return-to-office policies cooling technology job market
Sources: Andy Jassy's campaign to flatten Amazon's middle management raises fears among staff of lean years and fewer promotions, as old career paths dry up
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #5
John Schulman co-founded OpenAI.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
John Schulman OpenAI
John Schulman, who co-founded OpenAI and has been credited as one of ChatGPT's leading architects, leaves Anthropic, after joining the startup in August 2024
The Information · 2025-02-06 · #33
John Schulman joined Anthropic in August 2024.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
John Schulman Anthropic
John Schulman, who co-founded OpenAI and has been credited as one of ChatGPT's leading architects, leaves Anthropic, after joining the startup in August 2024
The Information · 2025-02-06 · #33
John Schulman leaves Anthropic.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
John Schulman Anthropic
John Schulman, who co-founded OpenAI and has been credited as one of ChatGPT's leading architects, leaves Anthropic, after joining the startup in August 2024
The Information · 2025-02-06 · #33
Joseph Firmage co-founded USWeb.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
Joseph Firmage USWeb
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors
Bloomberg · 2025-02-06 · #10
Boz states their team uses the term 'MR' internally to cover both mixed reality and VR.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-06
Boz (boztank) MR
Interviews with nearly two dozen VR studios on shipping games on Quest, Meta's increased focus on Horizon Worlds, concerns over declining game sales, and more
UploadVR · 2025-02-06 · #9
a16z hires former Marine Daniel Penny to work on its American Dynamism team.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
a16z Daniel Penny American Dynamism team
a16z hires former Marine Daniel Penny, who in December a New York jury acquitted in a controversial subway chokehold case, to work on its American Dynamism team
The Free Press · 2025-02-05 · #7
Microsoft and Google DeepMind are engaged in a fierce battle for AI talent in the race to build powerful AI agents.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
Microsoft Google DeepMind
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three former Google DeepMind colleagues; two of them built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on AI agent Astra
Financial Times · 2025-02-05 · #20
Partner David Ulevitch said 'Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,' explaining the hire.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
David Ulevitch Daniel Penny a16z hire
a16z hires former Marine Daniel Penny, who in December a New York jury acquitted in a controversial subway chokehold case, to work on its American Dynamism team
The Free Press · 2025-02-05 · #7
OPM plans to make each government agency's chief information officer a political appointee subject to at-will removal.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) government agency chief information officers
The US OPM plans to make each government agency's chief information officer a political appointee who can be fired at will, helping Trump exert more control
NBC News · 2025-02-05 · #9
The planned change would help Trump exert more control over federal agencies by making agency CIOs political appointees who can be fired at will.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
Donald Trump federal agencies
The US OPM plans to make each government agency's chief information officer a political appointee who can be fired at will, helping Trump exert more control
NBC News · 2025-02-05 · #9
Sources say the US SEC is moving to scale back a special crypto enforcement unit of roughly 50 lawyers and staff, with some members being reassigned within the agency.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-05
US SEC special crypto enforcement unit 50+ lawyers and staff
Sources: the US SEC is moving to scale back a special unit of 50+ lawyers and staff members that had been dedicated to bringing crypto enforcement actions
New York Times · 2025-02-05 · #14
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three former Google DeepMind colleagues to join Microsoft AI.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
Mustafa Suleyman Microsoft three former Google DeepMind employees
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three former Google DeepMind colleagues; two of them built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on AI agent Astra
Financial Times · 2025-02-05 · #20
Two of the hires previously built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on the AI agent Astra at Google DeepMind.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-05
two of the hires NotebookLM Audio Overviews Astra (AI agent)
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three former Google DeepMind colleagues; two of them built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on AI agent Astra
Financial Times · 2025-02-05 · #20
BlackRock reportedly plans to hire about 1,200 people in India to build its AI teams.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-05
BlackRock
Sources: BlackRock plans to hire ~1,200 people to build its AI teams in India and will inherit ~500 staff in Bengaluru through its proposed Preqin acquisition
Bloomberg · 2025-02-05 · #41
Sources report Meta is merging Facebook's and Messenger's teams into a single unit.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-05
Meta Facebook team Messenger team
Sources: Meta is merging Facebook's and Messenger's teams into one unit and shuffling its generative AI group, as it prepares for company-wide layoffs next week
The Information · 2025-02-05 · #49
Sources report Meta is shuffling its generative AI group as part of an internal reorganization.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-05
Meta generative AI group
Sources: Meta is merging Facebook's and Messenger's teams into one unit and shuffling its generative AI group, as it prepares for company-wide layoffs next week
The Information · 2025-02-05 · #49
Sources say Meta is preparing company-wide layoffs next week.
rumored 1 article 2025-02-05
Meta
Sources: Meta is merging Facebook's and Messenger's teams into one unit and shuffling its generative AI group, as it prepares for company-wide layoffs next week
The Information · 2025-02-05 · #49
Sources say Shedd wants the Technology Transformation Services to operate like a 'startup software company.'
rumored 1 article 2025-02-04
Thomas Shedd GSA Technology Transformation Services startup software company model
Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA's new Technology Transformation Services director and Elon Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an “AI-first strategy”
Wired · 2025-02-04 · #3
Salesforce had nearly 73,000 employees as of January 2024.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-04
Salesforce
Source: Salesforce is cutting 1,000+ roles and will let displaced workers apply for other jobs internally; Salesforce had nearly 73,000 workers in January 2024
Bloomberg · 2025-02-04 · #29
Salesforce will allow displaced workers from the cuts to apply for other jobs internally.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-04
Salesforce displaced workers
Source: Salesforce is cutting 1,000+ roles and will let displaced workers apply for other jobs internally; Salesforce had nearly 73,000 workers in January 2024
Bloomberg · 2025-02-04 · #29
CEO Alex Karp said Palantir is seeing 'untamed organic growth' in AI demand.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-04
Alex Karp Palantir AI demand
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 36% YoY to $828M, vs. $776M est., and US commercial revenue up 64% YoY; PLTR, which soared 340% in 2024, jumps ~20%
CNBC · 2025-02-04 · #35
Dick Kramlich co-founded venture firm NEA (New Enterprise Associates) in 1977.
confirmed 1 article 2025-02-04
Dick Kramlich NEA
Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others
Business Insider · 2025-02-04 · #28