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Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report

May 16, 2023 3:43pm

Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of employees, according to a report.

Google, which laid off some 12,000 employees earlier this year, filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to the United States and assume highly specialized tech roles within the company, according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.

The Alphabet-owned search engine submitted applications for dozens of foreign workers who were seeking to fill roles including software engineers, analytical consultants, user experience researchers and others, Fang wrote in his Substack newsletter on Tuesday.

The Google-owned self-driving outfit Waymo also received government approval for H-1B visa applications for engineering jobs, according to Fang.

The newly employed workers from overseas will begin working at the company as soon as Aug. 17, Fang reported.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/google-me ... fs-report/
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Bill Gates says A.I. could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/22/bill-ga ... tants.html
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes the future top company in artificial intelligence will likely have created a personal digital agent that can perform certain tasks for people.

The technology will be so profound, it could radically alter user behaviors. “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” he said.

This yet-to-be developed AI assistant will be able to understand a person’s needs and habits and will help them “read the stuff you don’t have time to read,” Gates said Monday during a Goldman Sachs and SV Angel event in San Francisco on the topic of artificial intelligence.

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He also likened the rise of generative AI technologies that can produce compelling text as a game-changer that will affect white-collar workers. Gates added that he believes that future humanoid robots that are cheaper for companies to use than human employees will greatly impact blue-collar workers, too.
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Twitter withdraws from EU's disinformation code as bloc warns against hiding from liability
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May 27 (UPI) -- Twitter has withdrawn from the European Union's online disinformation code of practice, a voluntary agreement that most major social media platforms pledged to abide, prompting a warning from the bloc against hiding from legal liability.

European Commissioner Thierry Breton revealed that Twitter had abandoned the code in a statement posted on the social media platform Friday.

"Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain. You can run but you can't hide," Breton said. "Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under [the Digital Services Act] as of August 25. Our teams will be ready for enforcement."

The DSA, a separate law signed last year, was designed "to create a safer digital space in which the fundamental rights of all users of digital services are protected" which includes protections against the "spread of disinformation." The disinformation code was signed by Twitter's previous management team in 2018 before the company was purchased by controversial billionaire Elon Musk in November.
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weatheriscool wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:18 pm
It will eventually go so down that he'll sell it for less than he bought it for.
"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."

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Time_Traveller wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:21 pm
weatheriscool wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:18 pm
It will eventually go so down that he'll sell it for less than he bought it for.
I hope it closes for good.
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"YouTube will now allow 2020 election denialism content, in policy reversal"
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YouTube on Friday said it will no longer remove content featuring false claims that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy instituted more than two years ago amid a wave of misinformation about the election.

The platform said in a blog post that it will stop removing “content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.”

“In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm,” YouTube said in the post, which was first reported by Axios. The Google-owned platform said that it had removed “tens of thousands” of videos under the old policy.

The announcement comes in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election and at a time when former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner in the Republican primary, continues to make baseless claims about the previous election.

Other elements of the platform’s election misinformation policies remain in place, YouTube said, including prohibitions against content that could mislead users about how and when to vote, false claims that could discourage voting and content that “encourages others to interfere with democratic processes.”
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