Google offers buyouts to staff in its business unit who aren't 'all in'

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Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler
Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler.

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3 VCs behind Affirm, DoorDash, and Zoom say the next wave of billion-dollar companies won't be in San Francisco

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Sentinel Global investors
From left to right: Karan Sharma, Ethel Chen, and Jeremy Kranz.

Sentinel Global

Elon Musk said we'd reach Mars in 2026. Now, he says SpaceX is building a city on the moon.

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Elon Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft

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The guy who coined 'vibe-coding' says the next big thing is 'agentic engineering'

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Andrej Karpathy
OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy commemorated the first anniversary of coining vibe-coding by unveiling a new term.

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The '996' work culture taking over Silicon Valley is coming at a 'human expense,' these AI researchers say

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996 culture is gaining traction among AI workers in Silicon Valley.

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Where banks should focus AI spending to stay ahead, from Wall Street's AI scorekeeper

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Evident CEO Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Alexandra Mousavizadeh said banks are all racing to make sure engineers are up to speed on AI.

Evident

An identity verification AI startup is having all employees try vibe coding

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isbon , Portugal - 16 November 2023; Daniel Yanisse, Co-founder & CEO, Checkr, on Future Societies Stage during day three of Web Summit 2023 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo By Harry Murphy/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images)
Daniel Yanisse, CEO of Checkr, is making all non-technical staff try vibe coding with AI days and stipends.

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Ex-Google X leader thinks AI is about to expose a fatal flaw in capitalism

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Mo Gawdat is sitting in a chair in jeans and a black t-shirt.
Mo Gawdat says AI threatens jobs at all levels, including those of CEOs.

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A new platform lets AI agents 'rent a human.' Its creator says his job worries drove him to build it.

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RentAHuman's homepage as of Friday, February 6, including a dashboard showing a site visit count of about 2.8 million, 11,000 total bounties, and 180,000
RentAHuman's website tells gig workers that they can join "the meatspace" by doing tasks for AI agents.

RentAHuman

One question is haunting laid-off Big Tech workers: Did AI just cost me my job?

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Ian Carter (left), James Hwang (center), Joe Friend (right)
Ian Carter (left), James Hwang (center), and Joe Friend (right) are among the laid-off workers who've questioned whether AI played a role in their job cuts.

Ian Carter (left), James Hwang (center), Joe Friend (right)

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