The exterior of the Amazon Spheres in downtown Seattle on November 14, 2022, as Amazon began the largest layoffs in its history. | David Ryder/Getty Images A leaked memo shows Amazon was concerned with attracting and retaining top engineers earlier...
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The people who hate Sam Bankman-Fried the most
Christina Animashaun/Vox And the people who don’t (which makes the haters even angrier). If you are a certain kind of person, you have found yourself entranced by the SBF/FTX story. Billions of dollars have vanished from an offshore crypto operation....
AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem
ChatGPT is another sign that AI is getting a lot better. | Carol Yepes Here’s why you’ve been hearing so much about ChatGPT. A few weeks ago, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick told his MBA students to play around with GPT,...
We don’t need another Twitter
Christina Animashaun/Vox Twitter never fulfilled its promise. Don’t expect its current crop of replacements to, either. Justin Halpern has more reason to love Twitter than most of us. The 28-year-old had trouble finding a writing job in Hollywood, so he...
The Twitter power users who can’t just quit
Twitter CEO Elon Musk at a Halloween party. | Taylor Hill/Getty Images Under Elon Musk’s leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform. As Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk has been openly hostile toward...
Conferences want to cure the work-from-home blues
Attendees of Web Summit 2022 mingle as they arrive at Centre Stage at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 1. | Lukas Schulze/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Sunshine and wine caves: How conferences are trying to...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings likes Elon Musk, video games, and bingeing
Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings in February 2022. | Wolter Peeters/Fairfax Media via Getty Images “Elon Musk is the bravest, most creative person on the planet.” Netflix doesn’t want to sell itself to Microsoft. It does want to get...
Here’s what employers are cutting instead of your job
Companies are cutting back on real estate ahead of a potential recession. | Getty Images You may get to keep your job, but you might lose your Zoom and your desk. In the last three months, Dumbo Moving downsized about...
AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
Jasu Hu for Vox AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing. In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say:...
Twitter’s CEO is now Twitter’s main character
Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition in Washington, DC, in 2020. | Susan Walsh/AP Elon Musk’s disaster month at Twitter has come to a close. Let’s discuss. About a week and a half after buying Twitter and...