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Sam Altman Says Meta Offered OpenAI Staffers $100 Million Bonuses
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said Meta Platforms Inc. has offered his employees signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, as it seeks to build a top artificial intelligence team.
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Google, Apple Hit by Twin EU Rebuke Amid Big Tech Crackdown
The European Commission chastised Google for allegedly breaching the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act by favoring in-house services across its sprawling search empire and for preventing app developers from steering consumers to offers outside of its Play Store. Meanwhile, Apple was told it must loosen the shackles on its prized iPhone operatin...
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India Blockchain Week Returns to Bengaluru, Sparks Dialogue on Security Gaps and Self Custody
On Wednesday, December 4, Web3 venture capital firm Hashed Emergent inaugurated the two-day flagship event of India Blockchain Week in the nation’s tech hub, Bengaluru. The event has drawn leadership teams from prominent crypto, DeFi, and blockchain companies, facilitating direct engagement with India’s highly regarded Web3 developer community.
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Pak Probe Agency Using Israel's Intrusive Cyber Tech Since 2012: Report
Israeli cyber tech firm, Cellebrite, has sold Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and various police units products that are highly intrusive and can lead to gross human rights violations despite the two countries not having diplomatic ties
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Meta Lays Off Engineers, Adjacent Tech Teams as Employees Express Frustration With Job Cuts
Meta on Wednesday cut more jobs as the Facebook parent firm laid off engineers and adjacent tech teams. The layoffs prompted expressions of frustration from Meta employees, who said the cuts had "shattered the morale and confidence in leadership of many high performers who work with intensity."
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Tech CEOs Will Pay a Harsh Price for These Job Cuts
Big Tech layoffs have affected nearly every noteworthy firm in Silicon Valley with almost 100,000 positions eliminated this year. Tech workers might have taken the brunt of firings, but their counterparts in finance have begun to feel the pressure of the ongoing financial slowdown. Here's how the ongoing layoffs in the tech sector could hurt CEOs a...
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Microsoft, Amazon, Other Tech Firms Cut Jobs at Second-Highest Pace on Record in US
Layoffs in the United States hit a more than two-year high in January as technology firms cut jobs at the second-highest pace on record to brace for a possible recession, a report showed on Thursday. The layoffs impacted 1,02,943 workers, a more than two-fold jump from December and an over five-times surge from a year earlier, according to the repo...
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US Layoffs At Over 2-Year High After Massive Job Cuts In Tech: Report
Layoffs in the United States hit a more than two-year high in January as technology firms cut jobs at the second-highest pace on record to brace for a possible recession, a report showed on Thursday.
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Google Staff Anxiety Runs High After 12,000 Colleagues Cut
Google employees, after watching peers at rival tech firms lose their jobs en masse, were anxious about when layoffs would happen to them. Then on Friday morning, some of them couldn't get into their corporate accounts.
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Russian Lawmakers Approve Harsher Rules for Foreign Tech Firms Without Offices, Personal Data Transfer
Russian lawmakers have approved a bill with stricter penalties for foreign internet companies that fail to open an office in Russia. Fines could be as high as 10 percent of a company's turnover in Russia from the previous year, rising to up to 20 percent for repeat violations.
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Twitter Closes Re-Opened US Offices, Big Tech Firms Make COVID-19 Vaccination Mandatory as Delta Cases Surge
Twitter is shutting its reopened offices in the US, while other big tech companies are making vaccination mandatory for on-campus employees, as the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant drives a resurgence in cases.
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Big Tech Critic Lina Khan Sworn in as US Federal Trade Commission Chair
Lina Khan, an antitrust researcher focused on Big Tech's immense market power, was sworn in as chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, a victory for progressives seeking a clampdown on tech firms who hold a hefty share of a growing sector of the economy.
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Big Tech CEOs' US Congressional Antitrust Hearing Delayed
A highly anticipated antitrust hearing including top executives of four Big Tech firms, originally set for Monday, has been postponed.
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Kerala High Court Questions State Over Data Sharing With US-Based Tech Firm
Kerala High Court today heard a plea regarding the state government's contract with US-based tech firm Sprinklr that is aimed at analyzing data based on details of people under surveillance in the state due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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As Trump Snubs High-Tech Visas, Indians Turn To Canada In Huge Numbers
ThinkData Works Inc., a big-data processing firm, just hired a software engineer from Brazil through Canada's new fast-track visa program for high-skilled workers.
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Sam Altman Says Meta Offered OpenAI Staffers $100 Million Bonuses
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said Meta Platforms Inc. has offered his employees signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, as it seeks to build a top artificial intelligence team.
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Google, Apple Hit by Twin EU Rebuke Amid Big Tech Crackdown
The European Commission chastised Google for allegedly breaching the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act by favoring in-house services across its sprawling search empire and for preventing app developers from steering consumers to offers outside of its Play Store. Meanwhile, Apple was told it must loosen the shackles on its prized iPhone operatin...
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India Blockchain Week Returns to Bengaluru, Sparks Dialogue on Security Gaps and Self Custody
On Wednesday, December 4, Web3 venture capital firm Hashed Emergent inaugurated the two-day flagship event of India Blockchain Week in the nation’s tech hub, Bengaluru. The event has drawn leadership teams from prominent crypto, DeFi, and blockchain companies, facilitating direct engagement with India’s highly regarded Web3 developer community.
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Pak Probe Agency Using Israel's Intrusive Cyber Tech Since 2012: Report
Israeli cyber tech firm, Cellebrite, has sold Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and various police units products that are highly intrusive and can lead to gross human rights violations despite the two countries not having diplomatic ties
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Meta Lays Off Engineers, Adjacent Tech Teams as Employees Express Frustration With Job Cuts
Meta on Wednesday cut more jobs as the Facebook parent firm laid off engineers and adjacent tech teams. The layoffs prompted expressions of frustration from Meta employees, who said the cuts had "shattered the morale and confidence in leadership of many high performers who work with intensity."
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Tech CEOs Will Pay a Harsh Price for These Job Cuts
Big Tech layoffs have affected nearly every noteworthy firm in Silicon Valley with almost 100,000 positions eliminated this year. Tech workers might have taken the brunt of firings, but their counterparts in finance have begun to feel the pressure of the ongoing financial slowdown. Here's how the ongoing layoffs in the tech sector could hurt CEOs a...
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Microsoft, Amazon, Other Tech Firms Cut Jobs at Second-Highest Pace on Record in US
Layoffs in the United States hit a more than two-year high in January as technology firms cut jobs at the second-highest pace on record to brace for a possible recession, a report showed on Thursday. The layoffs impacted 1,02,943 workers, a more than two-fold jump from December and an over five-times surge from a year earlier, according to the repo...
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US Layoffs At Over 2-Year High After Massive Job Cuts In Tech: Report
Layoffs in the United States hit a more than two-year high in January as technology firms cut jobs at the second-highest pace on record to brace for a possible recession, a report showed on Thursday.
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Google Staff Anxiety Runs High After 12,000 Colleagues Cut
Google employees, after watching peers at rival tech firms lose their jobs en masse, were anxious about when layoffs would happen to them. Then on Friday morning, some of them couldn't get into their corporate accounts.
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Russian Lawmakers Approve Harsher Rules for Foreign Tech Firms Without Offices, Personal Data Transfer
Russian lawmakers have approved a bill with stricter penalties for foreign internet companies that fail to open an office in Russia. Fines could be as high as 10 percent of a company's turnover in Russia from the previous year, rising to up to 20 percent for repeat violations.
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Twitter Closes Re-Opened US Offices, Big Tech Firms Make COVID-19 Vaccination Mandatory as Delta Cases Surge
Twitter is shutting its reopened offices in the US, while other big tech companies are making vaccination mandatory for on-campus employees, as the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant drives a resurgence in cases.
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Big Tech Critic Lina Khan Sworn in as US Federal Trade Commission Chair
Lina Khan, an antitrust researcher focused on Big Tech's immense market power, was sworn in as chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, a victory for progressives seeking a clampdown on tech firms who hold a hefty share of a growing sector of the economy.
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Big Tech CEOs' US Congressional Antitrust Hearing Delayed
A highly anticipated antitrust hearing including top executives of four Big Tech firms, originally set for Monday, has been postponed.
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Kerala High Court Questions State Over Data Sharing With US-Based Tech Firm
Kerala High Court today heard a plea regarding the state government's contract with US-based tech firm Sprinklr that is aimed at analyzing data based on details of people under surveillance in the state due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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As Trump Snubs High-Tech Visas, Indians Turn To Canada In Huge Numbers
ThinkData Works Inc., a big-data processing firm, just hired a software engineer from Brazil through Canada's new fast-track visa program for high-skilled workers.
