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Woke Vs. Woke: Google Employees Upset over Company’s Layoffs

In an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, more than 1,400 Google employees called for better management of the company’s mass layoffs. The letter calls on Pichai and his management team to remember the company’s code of conduct, which reads, “don’t be evil.”

Sundar Pichai CEO of Google ( Carsten Koall /Getty)

Twitter Files: The ‘Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’ Worked to Censor ‘True Stories’

In the latest Twitter Files report published on Friday, journalist and author Matt Taibbi revealed that Twitter partnered with the Virality Project, which warned the social media platform that “true stories that could fuel hesitancy,” complained that “anti-vaccine” accounts were retweeting the CDC, and ironically ran searches for the term “surveillance state” while looking for more information to censor.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 14: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of A

Biden Helps Jeff Bezos by Weakening Spaceflight Rules

The Biden administration recently changed rocket procurement rules for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch System — the program the United States government uses to launch payloads into space — in a way that may provide significant financial benefits to Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos.

(INSET: Blue Origin rocket) Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos addresses the audience durin

Microsoft Scraps AI Ethics Team as It Rapidly Expands Use of ChatGPT Technology

Microsoft’s commitment to AI ethics has been called into question after the software giant laid off a team dedicated to guiding AI innovation in a manner that respects privacy, transparency, and security. The company’s decision to ditch its AI ethics team is especially questionable given its rapid expansion of ChatGPT-powered AI in its software products.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Nvidia Builds Toned Down Microchips to Be Sold in China

Hardware giant Nvidia, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microchips and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), has released a new, slightly less powerful version of its mainstream chips to comply with restrictions on microchip sales in China.

employees working in a microchip factory

Report: Microsoft Spent Hundreds of Millions on OpenAI Supercomputer

Microsoft, which is devoting its resources to the AI race, and which has a head start thanks to its bankrolling of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has reportedly spent a figure “probably larger” than several hundred million dollars to assemble the computing power needed to support the AI company’s projects.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Zuck Vs. Elon: Facebook May Build a Platform to Compete with Twitter

Mark Zuckerberg and his team at Facebook (now known as Meta) are reportedly considering developing a text-based, decentralized social media network that could compete with Elon Musk’s Twitter. The move is a surprise for Zuckerberg given how obsessed with the metaverse concept he has become.

FILE- In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a

Google Settles Lawsuit with 40 States over Misleading Location Tracking for $391 Million

Tech giant Google has reportedly agreed to pay $391.5 million in a settlement with 40 state attorneys general over the company’s deceptive location tracking features. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said, “They have been crafty and deceptive. Consumers thought they had turned off their location tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers.”

Google boss Sundar Pichai is masked up ( Drew Angerer /Getty)

Bezos Blunder: Amazon to Close 8 Cashierless Convenience Stores

Internet retail giant Amazon is closing eight of its Amazon Go convenience stores in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City, amid wider cuts in the tech giant’s brick-and-mortar stores. Several of the stores are located in Seattle’s troubled downtown district where crime and open-air drug use are crowding out big business.

Amazon Go store