Investors are growing increasingly wary of AI
A new report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) found that global investment in AI fell for the second year in a row in 2023. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHow to succeed as a data engineer without the burnout
The key strategies for building a headache-free data platform
Read moreTesla execs Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel leave as company lays off 10%
Two high-profile executives have departed Tesla the same day that the electric automaker laid off thousands of workers, TechCrunch has confirmed. Drew Baglino, Tesla’s SVP of Powertrain and Energy, and Rohan Patel, VP of Public Policy and Business Development have left the company, Patel told TechCrunch. Patel said he decided
Read moreOpenAI plans new Tokyo office, Tesla lays offs thousands
Today on Equity, Tesla cuts staff, and OpenAI has plans for an office in Tokyo along with a new GPT-4 model for the Japanese language. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreJio Financial, BlackRock to tap India’s wealth management market
Jio Financial Services, part of the Indian conglomerate Reliance, is forming a joint venture with U.S. asset manager BlackRock to set up a wealth management and broking business in India, the two firms said Monday. The announcement follows BlackRock and Jio Financial launching a joint venture last year to offer
Read more3 Ways Helpful CIOs and CHROs Can Drive Experimental Cultures
Ten years ago, it was less likely for CIOs and Digitial Trailblazers to form a partnership with their CHRO and human resources departments. At that time, IT was largely focused on run and grow initiatives with little focus on transformation – and the term digital transformation was in its infancy.
Read moreParaform raises $3.6M seed round to connect startups with recruiter networks
Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy towards affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide to cut headcount. Indeed, tech firms cut up to half of their recruitment teams when they were laying people off
Read moreDraftboard lets companies list referral bonuses for anyone
Companies that offer role referral bonuses do so with the assumption that their employees know their work culture — and a role’s requirements — best. But what if companies were to open up those referral bonuses to people outside the organization? That’s the idea behind Draftboard, co-founded by Zach Roseman,
Read moreMeta’s ‘consent or pay’ tactic must not prevail over privacy, EU rights groups warn
Ahead of a full meeting of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) this week (April 16 and 17), which is expected to produce guidance on a controversial tactic used by Meta to force Facebook and Instagram users to consent to its tracking, almost two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits
Read moreMeta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram
Meta will "temporarily" shutter Threads in Turkey on April 29, in response to an injunction imposed by the country's competition authority. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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