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The Layoff Came With a LinkedIn Post Explaining Why It Was Good
Read more . . . →Monday.com cut one in five of its people this week — about 630 jobs out of 3,000 — and the cofounder went on LinkedIn to make sure you understood it wasn’t what it looked like. His words: this “was not made to reduce costs or replace people with AI.” Read that against the same filing, where the company says it’s trimming headcount to run “leaner” as it bets the whole product on its AI platform. And here’s the part that gives it away: Monday.com still projects up to 20% revenue growth this year. This isn’t a drowning company throwing weight...
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Amazon Fired the People Building the Robot That Was Coming for You
Read more . . . →Amazon spent two years telling everyone that AI was the future and your job was the past. This week it laid off people inside its AGI unit — the actual team building the models that were supposedly going to replace you — while it keeps pouring $200 billion into the data centers those models live in. Read that twice. They kept the concrete and cut the brains. The engineers writing the thing that was going to make you obsolete just found out they were a cost center too. This is where the whole pitch falls apart if you look at...
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