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Today, November 18, marked a day of shocking developments in the artificial intelligence space. In the first incident, the cofounder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, was sacked from the position of CEO of OpenAI by the company's board of directors. In the fallout of the decision, company president Greg Brockman also resigned from his position. In other news, Amazon announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence. This and…

Image Source : FILE Amazon Layoff Amazon is again laying off around 180 employees from its gaming division. The latest round of job cuts is the second in a row when the e-commerce giant. It has been reported further that the layoff is part of its broader restriction and in an internal memo shared with the employees of the gaming division, the company stated that the…

Image Source : AP Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters Wednesday. The lunchtime protest comes a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday published his annual shareholder letter, where he reflected on how the company found a way to increase demand amid ‘macroeconomic’ challenges and other challenges it faced in the past year. In his letter, Jassy also asked employees to work from the office at least three days a week from May.He said that invention happens when employees work in person and that working from home is not “the best long-term approach.”“We also looked hard at how we were working together as a team and asked our…

Amazon.com Inc. is selling a vacant Bay Area office complex purchased about 16 months ago, in an effort to unwind a pandemic-era expansion that left it with a surfeit of warehouses and employees. Amazon.com Inc. is selling a vacant Bay Area office complex purchased about 16 months ago, the company's latest effort to unwind a pandemic-era expansion that left it with a surfeit of warehouses and employees. Amazon in October 2021 paid $123 million for the 29-acre property in Milpitas, California, part of a strategy to…

Google slashes nearly 12,000 jobs worldwide. The layoffs come a day after Microsoft said it would reduce staff numbers by 10,000, following similar cuts by Meta, Amazon and Twitter. Google's announcement Friday it would slash nearly 12,000 jobs worldwide is the latest in a series of mass layoffs in the once-unassailable tech sector, which is facing a huge downturn. Here are the others: - Amazon - The online retail giant said on January 5 it would cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce, citing "the…

In a memo, Amazon has said that the majority of its employees have been laid off from the WW Amazon stores business and people experience and technology organisation. It said the employees in the United States, Canada and Costa Rica who have been laid off will be notified by the end of today as part of its plan to lay off 18,000 employees.…

Just 18 days into the New Year but the list of tech companies cutting jobs as recession fears loom large is only getting bigger. As a part of the scaling back, one of the big names to recently join the list…

A running list of the layoffs announced in the industry. Tech companies are trimming staff and slowing hiring as they face higher interest rates and sluggish consumer spending in the US and a strong dollar abroad. The tech industry shed 9,587 jobs in October, the highest monthly total since November 2020, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a consulting firm that tallies job cuts announced or confirmed by companies across telecom, electronics, hardware manufacturing and software development. In recent…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will be cutting jobs into 2023 as it adjusts to business conditions. Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will be cutting jobs into 2023 as it adjusts to business conditions, his first public comments about the cost-reduction plans roiling Amazon since reports that it planned to wipe out about 10,000 jobs.“Leaders across the company are working with their teams and looking at their workforce levels, investments they want to make in…