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The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increases its reliance on artificial intelligence.
Read full articleOracle’s abrupt termination of an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 employees via email on March 31 has sparked significant employee pushback over what many regarded as inadequate severance. The company offered four weeks of base pay plus one additional week per year of service, capped at 26 weeks, but crucially did not accelerate unvested stock grants — meaning […]
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
Echoing concerns from other security experts, Orange Cyberdefense (OC) recently warned that employees have become the biggest security threat faced by business. Now, in the latest illustration of its ongoing security response, Apple is putting new protections in place in macOS 26.4 that should help – but employee education remains critical as hackers turn to complex, multi-stage, social engineering attacks to infest systems with malware. Your people are your weakness The data tells its own story. OC explains: Employees account for 57% of all security incidents and 45% of these incidents come when workers bypass or ignore security policies by, for example, using unapproved tools. Attackers are actively searching for and exploiting those kinds of policy workarounds, seeking weaknesses in commonly used, but unapproved, tools. Users really should educate themselves. While companies can put some mitigations in place using device management and policy controls to constrain app use and down
Snap has quietly terminated its $400 million partnership with AI search startup Perplexity, revealing the split as part of its first-quarter earnings report. The deal, announced last November, would have embedded Perplexity’s conversational AI search engine directly into Snapchat’s Chat interface. Despite limited testing with select users, the companies failed to agree on a path […]
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
'The stakes could not have been higher when 12 of your employees advocated to contact Canadian authorities'
One of the more dangerous assumptions in the current AI market is that broad adoption means meaningful adoption. It does not. Much of what enterprises call AI transformation is, in fact, AI experimentation focused at the edge of the business, in systems and workflows that support employees but are not central to how the enterprise actually operates. These include calendaring, scheduling, meeting summaries, employee communications, customer messaging, document generation, internal assistants, and similar productivity-oriented use cases. Those applications may be useful, but they are not core applications that directly run the business and determine whether the company performs well or poorly. Inventory management, sales order entry, logistics execution, supply chain planning, procurement, warehouse management, manufacturing operations, and financial transaction processing belong in this category. If these systems fail, the business feels it immediately through delayed orders, lost reven
Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers Meta and Microsoft are trimming their workforces by thousands as they make heavy investments in AI and executives claim that the technology is meeting their companies’ productivity needs. Meta told staff on Thursday that on 20 May it would cut some 10% of its personnel just under 8,000 employees– to boost efficiency, part of a layoff plan made months ago. The company is also closing about 6,000 open roles. The same day, Microsoft announced to employees, for the first time, that it would offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of its American workforce of roughly 125,000. Continue reading...
