Tech

Cuts at Twitter under Elon Musk’s ownership aren’t over just yet, with employees responsible for global content moderation as well as those in the hate speech and harassment units among the latest layoffs, Bloomberg reported.  At least a dozen cuts were made Friday night, affecting employees in the social media company’s Dublin and Singapore offices. Among those laid off were workers who...

Amazon employees openly welcomed a potential comeback by Jeff Bezos to run the struggling e-retail giant after current CEO Andy Jassy announced a larger-than-expected wave of layoffs, according to a report Friday. Speculation that Bezos could seek to supplant Jassy as CEO has increased during a sustained downturn in Amazon’s stock price. In a recent blog post, Michael Batnick, a managing partner...

Amazon is planning to lay off more than 17,000 workers, 7,000 more than initially expected, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The e-commerce giant, helmed by CEO Andy Jassy, in November began laying off staff in its devices division, with the source telling Reuters at the time the company was targeting 10,000 job cuts. Some of the additional layoffs are from Amazon’s corporate ranks, the...

Artificially intelligent chatbots like ChatGPT can be medically refitted and might prove critical in the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, new research from Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems suggests. “Our proof-of-concept shows that this could be a simple, accessible and adequately sensitive tool for community-based testing,” professor Hualou Liang, Ph.D. of the Philadelphia school and a coauthor...

Social media giants can look forward to more government regulation in the new year. TikTok and other tech companies were in the crosshairs of Congress last year, and according to Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), that’s expected to continue in 2023. Gallagher compared TikTok to “digital fentanyl” on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, adding that...