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02/23/2024
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By Laura Harris
Google faces backlash over MASS LAYOFFS in January despite company’s financial success
Tech giant Google has once again come under fire after conducting another round of mass layoffs in January to streamline operations and allocate more resources to artificial intelligence (AI). The job cuts, which affected a thousand employees, included hundreds of workers in the voice assistant sector, hardware teams responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit products, augmented reality, engineering […]
08/18/2023
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By Laura Harris
New York Times revises terms of service to prevent tech giants from using its materials to train AI
The New York Times has updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit tech giants from using the paper’s materials to train artificial intelligence (AI), following their withdrawal from the coalition of media companies and tech giants. According to the revised terms of service, all forms of New York Times content, such as texts, photographs, images, audio and video […]
05/12/2023
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By Ethan Huff
Fast-food employees already being replaced by AI chatbots
Corporations are desperate to shed their human employees in order to replace them with unpaid AI robots whose job it will be to take people’s orders at the fast-food drive-thru. The Ohio-based Wendy’s chain is piloting a program at a corporate-owned location in Columbus that does just this: replace fast-food order-taking employees with an artificial […]
05/11/2023
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By Ethan Huff
Wendy’s and Google replacing employees with AI chatbots
“Would you like fries with that?” will soon be uttered by artificial intelligence (AI) robots rather than human beings at the Wendy’s fast-food chain. The AI chatbot technology Wendy’s is utilizing is still in development, but eventually patrons will be able to order using terms like “JBC,” short for junior bacon cheeseburger, and “biggie bags” […]
05/04/2023
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By Ethan Huff
IBM to replace 8,000 workers with AI automation; no more new hires for roles that can be filled by AI
Last month, Goldman Sachs predicted that the growth and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually lead to about 300 million layoffs among highly-paid, non-menial workers both in the United States and Europe. And IBM is already leading the way into this new robot economy by announcing plans to lay off nearly 8,000 higher-paid workers, […]
10/19/2020
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By Zoey Sky
Report: Amazon is “gatekeeper for e-commerce” that exploits data to compete with rivals
On Oct. 6, Tuesday, a congressional panel challenged one of Amazon’s defenses against antitrust scrutiny of its retail dominance. The panel also discussed charges about how Amazon wrongfully uses its market power. Amazon dominates U.S. e-commerce In the report, the Democratic-led House Antitrust Subcommittee disputed Amazon’s assertions that its share of total U.S. retail shopping “is the most […]
01/29/2020
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By JD Heyes
Apple’s China-based slave-labor factories could take production hit thanks to rapid spread of Coronavirus pandemic
Thanks to the rapid spread of the Coronavirus, which originated in the central city of Wuhan, production at Apple’s China-based slave labor factories where workers are paid the U.S. equivalent of less than two dollars per day could tank. As reported by Bloomberg News on Tuesday, nearly all of Apple’s iPhones are made in China […]
06/19/2019
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By JD Heyes
Facebook running a 21st century version of sweatshops as contractors keel over dead while other workers fear for their lives
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many small tenement apartments inhabited by European immigrants often doubled as workplaces and living spaces. There, men and women toiled away as contractors for larger corporations, churning out clothing, parts, and other products. Wages were low and hours were long, but because they were immigrants and were trying […]
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