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- Coinbase is laying off 14% of its staff.
- Its CEO cited AI as the key reason for this, as it pivots to tiny teams and away from layers of management.
- The CEO's memo to staff had all the classic ingredients of a 2026 layoff letter.
Same story, different company.
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Lip-Bu Tan’s leadership of Intel has, since the early months of his tenure, run on a single recognisable pattern: hire from rivals, restructure around the new hires, and rebuild the bench. On Monday Intel announced its latest such move. Alex Katouzian, a 25-year Qualcomm veteran most recently running its mobile, compute, and extended-reality businesses, joins […]
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