Robinhood Laying Off Almost a Quarter of Its Workforce
Robinhoodies Scandal-ridden investing platform Robinhood is continuing its dismal fall from grace. After laying off nine percent of its staff back in April, company leaders announced yesterday that...
View ArticleGoogle Employees Alarmed That the Company Suddenly Expects Them to Do Work
Desk Jockeys Crab cake lunches aren't enough to quell growing employee discomfort at Google. In late July, Googlers were told to get off their bean bag chairs and work — and now, upon the announcement...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Incredulous at Employees Mad About Loss of Perks
Google Vexed In the days of Silicon Valley past, Google made sure to cement itself as the tech world's resident Cool Boss. But not anymore! The company's productivity crackdown continues, and according...
View ArticleLayoffs Hitting Facebook as Zuckerberg's Vision Stumbles
It's happening. Just days after layoff rumors began to swirl, Bloomberg reports that Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has, for the first time in the company's nearly 20-year history, announced...
View ArticleFacebook Tried to Open a Railroad, Failed Miserably
Choo Choo You may be shocked to discover that Facebook, the social media company, once tried to open a railroad. You might not be as shocked to discover that the Silicon Valley company abandoned the...
View ArticleGoogle Instructs Workers to Share Desks to Cut Costs
No Desk for You The rise and fall of the Bean Bag Empire continues. Amid Google's mounting AI war woes — spoiler: it's losing — CNBC now reports that the company has officially commanded its loyal...
View ArticleCompany Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year
Alright Alright Alright Salesforce, the cloud-based "customer relationship management" software colossus co-helmed by the definitely-not-Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to...
View ArticleThe Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart
On the battlefield of the metaverse, Mickey Mouse and Clippy are the latest fallen warriors. Between mass industry job cuts and a trance-like shift toward generative AI, it's a strange time for the...
View ArticleVideo Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave
Over the weekend, comedian and YouTuber Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the ongoing AI gold rush. And honestly? It goes pretty hard. "Tech...
View ArticleIt Sounds Like Facebook Is Completely Falling Apart
Hunger Games As it turns out, firing nearly 30 percent of a workforce over the course of just six months isn't exactly great for worker morale. According to a report from The New York Times, the...
View ArticleMurdered Tech CEO May Have Been Stabbed to Death by Tech Exec He Knew
Alleged Killer Bob Lee, a cofounder of Cash App and former Square executive, as well as more recently the chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, was stabbed to death last week in...
View ArticleSan Francisco District Attorney Takes Aim at Elon Musk Over Murder Allegations
Cash App cofounder Bob Lee was found stabbed to death in a deserted part of downtown San Francisco in the early morning hours of April 4. The incident, which received huge amounts of media attention,...
View ArticleStanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”
Kids in America Associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Robert Reich threw absolute daggers this week when, while speaking to Esquire about the newness of...
View ArticleLeaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You'd...
In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race — but the competition that the exec fears most, according to an NBC report, might be a little...
View ArticleFormer Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”
Four Too Many Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who just last week said that AI companies should be left to regulate themselves, warned the crowd at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit in London...
View ArticleRobot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off
Pie in the Sky A robot pizza delivery startup that raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after a series of technological setbacks, according to The Information. The company, founded back...
View ArticleBillionaires Are Reportedly Trying to Start a New City Near San Francisco
A billionaire-backed company has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land outside of San Francisco with the apparent intent of constructing an entirely new city, Insider and The New York Times are...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Got Busted in the Face
Battle Wounds Talk about hitting the Mark. (Sorry, we had to.) Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, an avid jiu-jitsu devotee and fighting fan, took to Instagram on Sunday to show off his recent...
View ArticleThat Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video
Third Time's the Charm We honestly can't believe we're saying this, but: once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, that AI product is Humane's AI...
View ArticleTech CEOs Freaked Out About Sam Altman's Firing in a Giant Group Chat
Boys' DM In yet another deep dive look into some of the unreported details about OpenAI's Thanksgiving massacre, a bunch of new information has been revealed — including that the failed coup mobilized...
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