The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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When Elliott announced it was withdrawing its slate of Salesforce board candidates, it seems that some activist pressure had been lifted.
As Elliott withdraws Salesforce board nominations, activist pressure could be easing by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Apple today released the iOS 16.4 update to users, which includes a number of new features like an expanded set of emojis, voice isolation for calls, website push notifications, and more. Users can update to the latest version by going to Settings > General > Software Update. While iOS updates often simply patch security holes […]
Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emojis, web push notifications, voice isolation for calls & more by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Turo could be the first out of the IPO gate when the public-offering window reopens.
What’s Turo worth? by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
In a new filing in Epic Games’ antitrust case against Google, lawyers for the plaintiffs have submitted a number of exhibits that attempt to demonstrate Google employees’ tendency to switch off chat history on internal discussions. Epic believes this behavior is meant to destroy sensitive communications related to its lawsuit, but it’s not the only […]
Epic Games produces documents in antitrust case showing Googlers avoiding its litigation hold by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
In February, Disney CEO Bob Iger told shareholders in an earnings call that the company plans to lay off 7,000 employees as part of a significant restructuring. Today, in an internal memo to employees, which TechCrunch was able to obtain, Iger revealed that there will be three rounds of layoffs, with the first beginning this […]
The first round of Disney layoffs begins this week, CEO Bob Iger shares in memo by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch
Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale up to today’s data challenges. Data science tools like Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks do, but they tend to be too inaccessible to the layperson — at […]
Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch