Amazon gives managers power to fire non-compliant employees

Amazon is giving managers the power to fire employees who refuse to comply with the company’s three-times-a-week return-to-office policy. This is the strongest measure Amazon has taken yet to enforce its return-to-office mandate, which has been met with resistance from many employees. According to updated global manager guidance obtained by Insider, managers are instructed to […]

EU chat control regulation postponed for second time

The European Union (EU) Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), also known as “chat control,” has been postponed for the second time. The vote, originally scheduled for October 19th, has been delayed due to deep-seated disagreements among EU member states. A small coalition of EU states, including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, and Slovenia, […]

Microsoft CEO Nadella’s pay drops to $48.5M

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft received a compensation package totaling $48.5 million in 2023, marking the lowest figure he has received in the last three years. This comes months after Nadella told full-time salaried staff their pay was frozen due to a slowdown in revenue growth. Nadella’s pay package comprised $2.5 million in salary, unchanged; […]

Anthropic seeks public help to govern AI models

Anthropic, an Amazon-backed AI startup is seeking public input as part of its efforts to create guidelines for governing its AI models. Anthropic commissioned a poll of 1,000 Americans to ask them what values and guardrails they wanted powerful AI models to reflect. The results were then compared to an existing set of principles that […]