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KPMG is laying off hundreds of employees in the US Advisory division. The latest round of layoffs comes as part of a restructuring effort tied to shifting demand across consulting services. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the company has cut about 4% of its advisory workforce in the United States, affecting…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shut down any hopes of opting out of the company’s new AI tracking tool, telling employees directly that there’s no choice in the matter. The Model Capability Initiative logs keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots on work computers to train Meta’s AI agents—all while the company prepares to cut 8,000 jobs. Employees…
Even as reports said that Google had signed contract with the Pentagon, hundreds of Google employees were preparing to stage an ‘internal protest’, a report has said, adding that they called on CEO Sundar Pichai to block the US military from using the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) for secret work. According to a report by…
John Ternus didn’t waste time. Days after being announced as Tim Cook’s successor, Apple‘s CEO-in-waiting walked into a town hall and told employees exactly how he thinks about AI—and more importantly, what Apple won’t do with it. “We don’t ship technology for technology’s sake,” Ternus said, according to Bloomberg. It was the clearest signal yet…
Meta confirmed on Thursday it is cutting roughly 10% of its workforce—about 8,000 employees—with the axe falling on May 20. Another 6,000 open roles will simply be closed, never filled. The announcement came via an internal memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale, who acknowledged the plan had already leaked and decided to get ahead…
AGI pioneer Ben Goertzel warns of a looming “job apocalypse” within two to three years, predicting AI will soon surpass human intelligence and make most professions obsolete. He advises workers to cultivate emotional intelligence, embrace rapid skill adaptation, and decouple their identity from labor to remain relevant in the evolving landscape. Ben Goertzel, the computer…
Deloitte is planning to reduce several employee benefits for a section of its US workforce starting January 1, 2027, according to a Business Insider report. According to internal documents cited in the report, paid family leave, including parental leave, will be reduced from 16 weeks to eight weeks for affected employees. In addition, annual paid…
Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to roughly 7% of its US workforce—about 8,750 people out of 125,000 American employees. It’s the first time in the company’s 51-year history it has done anything like this. In previous years, when Microsoft needed to cut costs, it reached for layoffs: more than 15,000 jobs went last summer alone….
Nashik police have apprehended four TCS employees, already in judicial custody, on fresh charges of sexual harassment and religious insult. NASHIK: The Nashik city police have arrested four TCS employees in a case involving allegations of sexual harassment and hurting religious sentiments. The four accused had already been in judicial custody in connection with earlier…
Meta is laying off 10% of its workforce. As reported earlier this month by news agency Reuters, the Mark Zuckerberg headed company plans to reduce its workforce by 10%, or roughly 8,000 employees, in May. The company announced the layoffs in a memo written by chief people officer Janelle Gale to employees saying that the…
