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A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings
An AI-powered wearable from startup Limitless promises to make meetings more productive. It’s the beginning of...
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Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel
The fired workers included nine Google employees who were removed by police after occupying Google offices...
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Google Workers Detained by Police for Protesting Cloud Contract With Israel
Videos show nine Google workers being removed by police from offices in New York and Sunnyvale,...
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Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Google employees are staging sit-ins and protests at company offices in New York and California over...
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Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’
Any dreams of a sweeping AI bill out of Congress are basically a hallucination.
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This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories
Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using...
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Apple Store Employees Say Coworkers Were Disciplined for Supporting Palestinians
A protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and...
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Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon
Amazon listings for low-cost tech products can send shoppers down a rabbit hole of weird brand...
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism
Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.
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Photography Is No Longer Evidence of Anything
The most surprising thing about Kate Middleton’s Photoshop debacle is that anyone would consider a photo...
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Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?
Those sounds you hear when you’re alone in a Huddle aren’t canned. They’re uncanny.
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Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
As the influential startup incubator downsizes—and navigates political pushback—managing director Michael Seibel is taking a new...
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Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired
Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been laid off since 2022. Some who don’t fit...
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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She...
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Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference
WIRED reviewed a letter showing hundreds of Google workers demanding the company drop its sponsorship of...
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Why Tech Job Interviews Became Such a Nightmare
Rising interest rates led tech companies to become more demanding of potential hires. From lowball offers...
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The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly
AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots to answer queries almost instantly. That could open up...
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My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI
Consumer technology has trained users to expect and deal with crashes and other bugs. When the...
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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers but after mass layoffs the industry's culture has...
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This Company Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites
Sierra hopes every company will use its empathetic AI chatbots for customer interactions.
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Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them
Silicon Valley’s top pundit dishes on her memoir Burn Book, immature billionaires, and whether she’s actually...
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Here’s the Thing AI Just Can’t Do
Google says its powerful new chatbot Gemini can supercharge your creativity. But who is really providing...
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After 20 Years of Facebook, Lawmakers Are Still Trying to Fix It
Mark Zuckerberg celebrated Facebook’s birthday with a grilling from senators demanding more protections for children. New...
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How Beloved Indie Blog 'The Hairpin' Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm
Beloved women’s website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead...