‘I’m Still Trying to Process’: Meta Is Laying Off Employees Across the Company, Including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads
Meta confirmed the news but has not disclosed how many employees are impacted.
How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models
OpenAI is once again lifting the lid (just a crack) on its safety-testing processes. Last month the company shared the results of an investigation that looked at how often ChatGPT produced a harmful gender or racial stereotype based on a user’s name. Now it has put out two papers describing how it stress-tests its powerful…
Meta Fires Employee Making $400,000 Per Year Over a $25 Meal Voucher Issue
Other staff members were fired for the same reason, per a new report.
Pizza Hut Unveils ‘Personal Pan Pizza Hut’ Kiosks for Made-to-Order Pizzas — Here’s Where You Can Find One
Pizza Hut’s “Personal Pan Pizza Hut” is a new kiosk located inside select restaurants.
Here’s How the Founder of PopUp Bagels Turned a Backyard Baking Project Into a Viral Sensation
PopUp Bagels founder Adam Goldberg propelled his business forward by leveraging smart operations and even smarter partnerships along the way.
Transforming software with generative AI
Generative AI’s promises for the software development lifecycle (SDLC)—code that writes itself, fully automated test generation, and developers who spend more time innovating than debugging—are as alluring as they are ambitious. Some bullish industry forecasts project a 30% productivity boost from AI developer tools, which, if realized, could inject more than $1.5 trillion into the…
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The Download: farming on Mars, and lab robots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The quest to figure out farming on Mars Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted and howled, and driving rain fell from…
This lab robot mixes chemicals
Lab scientists spend much of their time doing laborious and repetitive tasks, be it pipetting liquid samples or running the same analyses over and over again. But what if they could simply tell a robot to do the experiments, analyze the data, and generate a report? Enter Organa, a benchtop robotic system devised by researchers…
The quest to figure out farming on Mars
Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted and howled, and driving rain fell from thick, cloudy skies. It wasn’t really so different from our own planet 4 billion years ago, except for one crucial detail—its size. Mars is about half the diameter of Earth,…
Stop Trying to Manage Employees Without Understanding Them — How to Build Relationships for Leadership Success
You can’t effectively manage people if you don’t understand them. Here’s how to build better working relationships with team members.