While many companies that went all in on AI have since pulled back, Salesforce is going full steam ahead. In an interview with Bloomberg, CEO Marc Benioff claimed that as much as 30% to 50% of the company’s work is now completed by AI—though no word on how much of his role personally has been […]
Massive Tech Layoffs May Be the Fault of a 2017 Trump Tax Cut
The good times in Silicon Valley are over—at least as far as the current generation of coders is concerned. The software industry is shrinking and, since 2023, the tech industry has been hemorrhaging jobs at an astounding rate. Workers who would’ve been secure several years ago are now out on their asses. While the reasons […]
Poll Finds That 75% of Scientists Are Thinking About Leaving the U.S.
A Nature poll of more than 1,000 scientists revealed that 75% of them are considering leaving the United States due to the uncertainties caused by the Trump administration’s slashing of federal and university funding. Since the second Trump term began, it has slashed research funding to universities and federal agencies purportedly in the name of […]
‘We Just Want to Get Back to Work’: NOAA Hurricane Hunter Speaks Out After Trump’s Layoffs
Less than a month into the second term of Donald Trump, the president signed an executive order that gave the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency broad powers to gut the federal workforce, in the name of cost-cutting. DOGE—led by the multibillionaire “special government employee” Elon Musk—has proceeded with zeal, working to scrap funding for veterans’ […]
Mysterious Blocklist Prevents Former Meta Employees From Returning
Meta reportedly maintains secretive lists of former employees who are prohibited from returning to the company. Some who have reapplied were even courted by their former managers, only to be ghosted after recruiters found they were on a mysterious “ineligible for rehire” list. Former employees are not told when they are added to such lists; […]
Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Weather Forecasters and Other NOAA Employees
Hundreds of federal workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were fired on Thursday, in the latest of a series of moves by the Trump administration to cull the numbers of federal workers in the sciences. The purge of the federal payroll is being led by the Department of Government Efficiency, which despite its […]
National Park Service in Turmoil After 1,000 Staff Abruptly Cut
One thousand National Park Service staff in their probationary period were abruptly dismissed last week as the Trump administration moves forward with what officials say are cost-cutting measures across the federal government. A National Parks Conservation Association release called for an immediate halt to the staffing cuts, citing their devastating impact on park visitors’ experience […]
GM Axes Half of Cruise as It Ditches Robotaxi Business
As companies like Waymo and Tesla plan to step on the gas and expand robotaxi offerings across the country, GM is shifting gears to reverse. An email obtained by TechCrunch revealed that the largest automaker in the United States is cutting nearly half of the workforce currently at Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company that GM […]
Picture of a Duck Accidentally Sent to Stripe Workers Being Laid Off
Stripe is laying off approximately 300 people this week, and the company that provides digital payment processing seems to have made a royal gaffe in executing the firings. Business Insider reports that employees affected by layoffs received a PDF image of a duck in their emails, as well as a termination date that was not […]