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02/23/2024
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By Laura Harris
Google faces backlash over MASS LAYOFFS in January despite company’s financial success
Tech giant Google has once again come under fire after conducting another round of mass layoffs in January to streamline operations and allocate more resources to artificial intelligence (AI). The job cuts, which affected a thousand employees, included hundreds of workers in the voice assistant sector, hardware teams responsible for Pixel, Nest and Fitbit products, augmented reality, engineering […]
08/18/2023
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By Laura Harris
New York Times revises terms of service to prevent tech giants from using its materials to train AI
The New York Times has updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit tech giants from using the paper’s materials to train artificial intelligence (AI), following their withdrawal from the coalition of media companies and tech giants. According to the revised terms of service, all forms of New York Times content, such as texts, photographs, images, audio and video […]
05/12/2023
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By Ethan Huff
Fast-food employees already being replaced by AI chatbots
Corporations are desperate to shed their human employees in order to replace them with unpaid AI robots whose job it will be to take people’s orders at the fast-food drive-thru. The Ohio-based Wendy’s chain is piloting a program at a corporate-owned location in Columbus that does just this: replace fast-food order-taking employees with an artificial […]
05/04/2023
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By Ethan Huff
IBM to replace 8,000 workers with AI automation; no more new hires for roles that can be filled by AI
Last month, Goldman Sachs predicted that the growth and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually lead to about 300 million layoffs among highly-paid, non-menial workers both in the United States and Europe. And IBM is already leading the way into this new robot economy by announcing plans to lay off nearly 8,000 higher-paid workers, […]
02/15/2018
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By Frances Bloomfield
Why do they need that? Amazon awarded a patent for ultrasonic wristband that can track employee’s movements
Internet retail behemoth Amazon has been granted two patents for employee-tracking wristband system. Originally filed back in 2016, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the patents on January 30 of this year. The proposed system would be composed of three elements: a management module to oversee warehouse operations, ultrasonic devices planted around the […]
09/30/2017
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By Frances Bloomfield
Exercise in frustration: Microsoft is exchanging its foreign customer service agents for chatbots
After taking over our manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is now poised to muscle in on another ubiquitous industry: customer service. Technology behemoth Microsoft has created a virtual assistant that companies can use to handle customer service requests. This AI chatbot is the newest and first product in a line of up-and-coming software that lets artificial […]
07/29/2017
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By Cassie B.
Microchipping goes mainstream: Wisconsin company announces plan to chip employees
The next time your boss asks you to do something you’d rather not, just remember that it could always be worse: you could be working for Three Square Market. The Wisconsin firm, which designs software that is used in office complex break room markets, has found itself in the spotlight after announcing its intention to […]
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