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Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans

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Amazon Grows To Over 750,000 Robots As World's Second-Largest Private Employer Replaces Over 100,000 HumansAmazon.com Inc....
Amazon Grows To Over 750,000 Robots As World's Second-Largest Private Employer Replaces Over 100,000 HumansAmazon.com Inc. is rapidly advancing its use of robotics, deploying over 750,000 robots to work alongside its employees.The world's second-largest private employer employs 1.5 million people. While that's a lot...

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Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract

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(Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in...
(Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government.The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations."Physically impe...

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Google Fires 28 Workers Protesting $1.2B Israeli Contract

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(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against...
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government and military with AI and cloud services.Most Read from BloombergThe protests, which were led by the No Tech fo...

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Amazon is cutting jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS

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Amazon said Wednesday it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part...
Amazon said Wednesday it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part of a strategic shift.The company will trim “a few hundred roles” in the team that overlooks technology for physical stores, a move that comes just a day after Amazon said it was ditching Just Walk Out technology in its U.S. g...

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TSMC halts some chipmaking as Taiwan gauges quake fallout

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(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. halted some chipmaking and evacuated plants after the biggest earthquake...
(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. halted some chipmaking and evacuated plants after the biggest earthquake to hit its home island in 25 years, raising concerns about disruptions to the global tech supply chain.Most Read from BloombergTSMC, the main contract chipmaker to Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp...

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Surprise: Metabolism Doesn't Slow Down in Middle Age

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If you've noticed the number on your scale creeping upward as you get older, you may...
If you've noticed the number on your scale creeping upward as you get older, you may have shrugged and chalked it up to the slowed metabolism that supposedly comes along with age. After all, isn't it common knowledge that gaining weight is easier — and losing it is much harder — after 40 or so? As it turns out, mayb...

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Canva acquires Affinity, its biggest acquisition, to compete with Adobe

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(Bloomberg) -- Canva Inc. acquired the Affinity suite of creative software popular with Mac users, securing...
(Bloomberg) -- Canva Inc. acquired the Affinity suite of creative software popular with Mac users, securing its biggest acquisition to date in an effort to compete with Adobe Inc.Most Read from BloombergThe deal, which is a mix of cash and stock, is valued at “several hundred million pounds,” Canva co-founder and Ch...

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Boeing CEO to Step Down

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Boeing (BA) CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of the year, the company...
Boeing (BA) CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of the year, the company announced Monday.Calhoun's departure comes as the plane maker has dealt with a raft of production and quality control issues this year, most notably when one of its 737 MAX 9 planes flown by Alaska Air (ALK) lost a panel in mid-flight ba...

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Judge denies Apple's attempt to dismiss class-action lawsuit on AirTag stalking

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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has denied Apple's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has denied Apple's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming that stalkers are using its AirTag devices to track victims — and that the tech giant hasn't done enough to prevent them.Apple’s $29 AirTags have become popular items since their 2021 release, helping users keep tabs on the ...

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Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up to IPO

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10% of retirees have $1M+ in savings

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what percentage of retirees have a million dolllarsSaving $1 million (or more) for retirement is a...
what percentage of retirees have a million dolllarsSaving $1 million (or more) for retirement is a great goal to have. Putting that much aside could make it easier to live your preferred lifestyle when you retire, without having to worry about running short of money. However, not a huge percentage of retirees end up...

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The last days of the Boeing whistleblower

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Saturday March 9 dawned as a gusty gray morning in Charleston, S.C. with thunderstorms rolling across...
Saturday March 9 dawned as a gusty gray morning in Charleston, S.C. with thunderstorms rolling across the historic city and daggers of lightning lighting up the skies. Just after 10 AM, Rob Turkewitz was sitting in a tony lawyers’ office downtown, waiting for his client John Barnett to testify—and further his crusad...

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Apple's hysterics over new EU antitrust law have led to two climbdowns already

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European Commission 2–Apple 0.The EU’s Digital Markets Act has been in place for less than five...
European Commission 2–Apple 0.The EU’s Digital Markets Act has been in place for less than five days, and its enforcers have already pushed Apple into two humiliating U-turns. If Apple has been trying to test how much it can throw its weight around in its increasingly hilarious hissy fit over the new Big Tech antitr...

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The $1T Race to Rebuild Ukraine

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(Bloomberg) -- As orders for its backup electricity generators surged in Ukraine, Turkish company Aksa Power...
(Bloomberg) -- As orders for its backup electricity generators surged in Ukraine, Turkish company Aksa Power Generation finally dispatched a dedicated manager to Kyiv. Salih Komurcu’s job, though, wasn’t just to oversee the current business in the war-hit country. It was also about what happens when the bombs eventu...

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Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. end it, too?

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Most Americans on Sunday will “spring forward,” the annual ritual of advancing our clocks by an...
Most Americans on Sunday will “spring forward,” the annual ritual of advancing our clocks by an hour in a bid to capture more sunlight - while dealing with the inevitable grogginess and health risks that result.But most Mexicans won’t adjust their clocks this spring after their country ended daylight saving time and...

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Could the $6B legal fee in Musk's Tesla pay case be reasonable?

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By Tom HalsWILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The lawyers who successfully voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla...
By Tom HalsWILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The lawyers who successfully voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package as excessive admitted their request for a $6 billion fee is "unprecedented," but by some measures, it might be cheap.The fee request, like Musk's pay package targeted in the case, defies easy com...

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Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want $6B fee

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The Crisis at Google

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It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar Pichai off guard. I remember sitting in the audience...
It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar Pichai off guard. I remember sitting in the audience in January 2018 when the Google CEO said it was as profound as electricity and fire. His proclamation stunned the San Francisco audience that day, so bullish it still seems a bit absurd, and it underscores how bi...

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Tyler Perry Pauses $800M Studio Expansion Due to OpenAI's Generator Sora

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OpenAI’s demonstration of its video-generator tool, Sora, caused a lot of hand-wringing about potential job losses....
OpenAI’s demonstration of its video-generator tool, Sora, caused a lot of hand-wringing about potential job losses. Now a TV and movie mogul is amplifying such fears.Tyler Perry says he has halted an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio complex that would have added a dozen soundstages. Seeing OpenAI’s tool ...

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U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon

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An unmanned, robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company landed on the moon Thursday...
An unmanned, robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company landed on the moon Thursday evening.“We can confirm, without a doubt, that our equipment is on the surface of the moon,” said Stephen Altemus, CEO of Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that operated the Odysseus spacecraft. “Welcome to t...

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Is $203T in derivatives held by top banks causing an ‘everything bubble’?

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The scale of derivatives held by major banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citibank and Goldman...
The scale of derivatives held by major banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citibank and Goldman Sachs, amounting to $203 trillion, has raised concerns about the potential risks these positions might pose to the global economy. The third-quarter Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities, published by t...

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Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google, sources say

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.The contract with Alphabet-owned Google is worth about $60 million per year, according t...

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Japan Bets $67B to Become a Global Chip Powerhouse Once Again

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(Bloomberg) -- Deep in the snowy northern island of Hokkaido, Japan is pouring billions of dollars...
(Bloomberg) -- Deep in the snowy northern island of Hokkaido, Japan is pouring billions of dollars into a long-shot bet to revive its chip-making prowess and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions.Most Read from BloombergExcavators and trucks criss-cross the frosty ground as construction work continues ...

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GenZ treat employers like bad dates 93% ghost interviews 87% don't show for work

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Ghosting isn’t just for dating anymore. Now Gen Z are treating their would-be employers like bad...
Ghosting isn’t just for dating anymore. Now Gen Z are treating their would-be employers like bad dates and not showing up for job interviews or their first day on the job without as much as a phone call.Employment website Indeed surveyed 1,500 businesses and 1,500 working people in the U.K. and found that job ghosti...

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