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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the United States will need hundreds of thousands of skilled trade workers to help build the infrastructure required for the country’s AI ambitions. As part of that effort, the social media giant has launched America’s Workforce Academy (AWA), a new initiative aimed at providing free training and direct pathways…
Over the years, Salman Khan’s stardom has inspired countless stories of fan devotion. While admirers often wait outside his residence or travel long distances to catch a glimpse of the actor, one incident from the past stood out for its sheer determination and innocence.In a surprising turn of events, three schoolboys from Delhi went missing…
GitLab is laying off around 350 employees, roughly 14% of its workforce, and pulling out of 22 countries—a restructuring CEO Bill Staples is pinning on what he calls the “agentic era” of software development. The DevSecOps company announced the cuts on Tuesday alongside a first quarter that beat Wall Street, with revenue up 23% to…
FILE (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Hundreds of University of California faculty members have signed an open letter urging the UC regents and faculty leaders to restore standardized testing requirements for Math and Science applicants. The letter cites an alarming drop in Math skills since the tests were abandoned. The UC system stopped accepting SAT and…
More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree seeds accompanied the mission on its journey around the Moon. While astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell explored the lunar surface in February 1971, command module pilot Stuart Roosa remained in lunar orbit with the seeds packed…
Hundreds of Wikipedia editors are threatening to take major action against the company. These actions may include a potential strike. The threats of collective action reportedly followed the Wikimedia Foundation’s disbanding of a small team of engineers that many volunteers relied on for technical support and community-requested tools.According to a report by The Verge, the…
Bangladeshis gather at Hakimpur border crossing on Tuesday (IANS) SWARUPNAGAR/KOLKATA: Hundreds of Bangladeshis without the documents required to stay in India made a bee-line for the Bithari-Hakimpur border exit in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Tuesday, seeking to return home amid an administrative flurry to implement the new BJP govt’s “detect-delete-deport” strategy for illegal immigrants.CM…
Zeb Evans, CEO of $4 billion all-in-one productivity platform ClickUp, announced that he is laying off more than 20% of his employees. Evans made the announcement that the company cut 22% of its headcount in a more than 1000-word post on X, formerly Twitter. He called the layoffs restructuring to create “100x org” and the…
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has shared concerns about the growing use of AI-generated code in software development, saying the technology may be increasing the amount of code developers produce without creating a matching rise in real productivity. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vembu reposted comments from François Chollet – founder of intelligence science…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has helped hundreds of employees become multimillionaires by allowing staff to sell large portions of their shares in a recent financing round. However, the scale of payouts may reportedly owe as much to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the growing AI talent war as to OpenAI’s own rise. The competition for AI talent…
