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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI set to target vandals in UK, AI boom may power Nvidia to No. 1, more

24Dec

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI set to target vandals in UK, AI boom may power Nvidia to No. 1, more

[ad_1] Festivities are in full swing across the world as we enter Christmas Eve, but fascinating stories from the world of artificial intelligence keep emerging. In the UK, Historic England, which is an executive non-departmental public body, is taking the help of AI to fight graffiti art vandals who deface historic churches, castles, and monasteries. In other news, as many as 30000 employees can lose their jobs in a massive Google layoff exercise, as per reports. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.AI to help fight vandalsAI may be employed as a deterrent against graffiti vandalism targeting historic sites such as churches and castles, reported the Guardian. Historic England is initiating a groundbreaking project that involves using AI to identify vandals thr...

Google and Amazon Struggle to Lay Off Workers in Europe

7Apr

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Google and Amazon Struggle to Lay Off Workers in Europe

[ad_1] After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.In the US, companies can announce widespread job cuts and let go of hundreds if not thousands of workers within months — and many have. Meanwhile, in Europe, mass layoffs among tech companies have stalled because of labor protections that make it virtually impossible to dismiss people in some countries without prior consultations with employee interest groups. This has left thousands of tech workers in limbo, unsure about whether they'll be affected by negotiations that can drag on indefinitely. In France, Google parent Alphabet Inc. is currently in talks to reduce headcount through voluntary departures, offering severance packa...

Apple to Make Small Number of Job Cuts in Some Corporate Retail Teams

5Apr

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Apple to Make Small Number of Job Cuts in Some Corporate Retail Teams

[ad_1] Apple Inc. is eliminating a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams, according to people with knowledge of the matter, marking its first known internal job cuts since it embarked on a belt-tightening effort last year.The company is shedding positions in what it calls its development and preservation teams, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the move hasn't been announced. Those groups are responsible for the construction and upkeep of Apple retail stores and other facilities around the world. While the number of positions being eliminated couldn't be ascertained and is likely very small, the move represents a new step for the world's most valuable company, whose peers have been slashing their ranks in the face of a shaky economy and sluggish c...

Google Employees Petition Pichai for Better Handling of Job Cuts

18Mar

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Google Employees Petition Pichai for Better Handling of Job Cuts

[ad_1] Almost 1,400 employees at Google parent Alphabet Inc. have signed a petition calling for better treatment of staff during the layoff process, after the company announced it was cutting 12,000 jobs.In an open letter addressed to Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, employees made a series of demands of the company, including freezing new hires, seeking voluntary redundancies before compulsory ones, giving priority to laid off workers for job vacancies and letting workers finish scheduled periods of paid time off, such as parental and bereavement leave. The workers also called on Alphabet to avoid terminating employees from countries with active conflicts or humanitarian crises, such as Ukraine, and provide extra support to those at risk of losing their visa-linked residency alo...

Video conferencing star Zoom cuts staff by 15 percent

8Feb

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Video conferencing star Zoom cuts staff by 15 percent

[ad_1] The company behind the Zoom video conferencing platform -- which became a household name during the pandemic -- announced Tuesday it is laying off about 15 percent of its staff. Zoom Video Communications chief executive Eric Yuan is also taking a 98 percent cut in salary this year and forgoing his executive bonus, he said in a blog post about the job cuts. He added that members of his executive leadership team are taking a 20 percent salary reduction and also forfeiting bonuses this year. While people and businesses continue to rely on Zoom "as the world transitions to life post-pandemic," the Silicon Valley-based firm is seeing customers cut back on spending, Yuan said in the post. Zoom has made the "tough but necessary" decision to lay off about 1,300 people, or roughl...

Sad layoff story: Google engineer sacked 4 days after his mother passed

27Jan

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Sad layoff story: Google engineer sacked 4 days after his mother passed

[ad_1] The massive employee layoff by Google resulted in one software engineer who was sacked just after his mother passed. The mega global layoff by some of the big names in the industry has resulted in some of the saddest layoff stories the world is hearing. While the internet is full of heartbreaking layoff stories, this is one that has got tears rolling. The massive layoff of 12000 employees in Google from all across the world includes the story of a software engineer who has shared a heartbreaking story of him being sacked by the company.Tommy York, who is now a former software engineer at Google, shares his account of the layoff experience, one that involved him being sacked just four days after his mother had passed away. York's mother was suffering from cancer in the last stag...

21Jan

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Big tech’s job-slashing wave

[ad_1] 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 uncertain economy" and the fact it had "hired rapidly" during the pandemic. During Covid, Amazon had gone on a hiring spree to meet an explosion in demand for deliveries, doubling its global staff between the beginning of 2020 and start of 2022. It was the largest among...