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☆ A top AI expert says most outsourced coders in India will be out of a job in 2 years thanks to the technology
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque thinks AI will eliminate most outsourced coding jobs in India. AI will soon eliminate most outsourced coding jobs in India as the technology will drastically reduce the need for them, according to a leading AI expert. Tech jobs are one of the professions most likely to be replaced by AI, Insider's Aaron Mok and Jacob Zinkula previously reported. GitHub's CEO Thomas Dohnke told Computer Weekly last year that AI could help developers be more productive. Additionally, workers with AI skills stand to gain as the tech industry is placing a greater focus on talent in this area, Insider's Thomas Maxwell reported.

Persons: Emad Mostaque, you'll, Mostaque —, Insider's Aaron Mok, Jacob Zinkula, Thomas Dohnke, Insider's Thomas Maxwell Organizations: Morning, UBS, CNBC, Bloomberg, Computer Locations: India, France

☆ Google's top AI researchers, including all the authors behind a landmark paper, have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.

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Instagram's headcount is looking a bit smaller after layoffs, but it has a hit new app in Threads. Insider is highlighting 14 top executives at Instagram in 2023. Instagram's partnerships org, which handles relationships with public figures, creators, and brands, is also in for a massive overhaul, after cuts in May slashed many roles. Charles Porch will continue to lead Instagram's partnerships team as VP. Insider has compiled a list of 14 top executives at Instagram who lead teams from product marketing to diversity and inclusion.

Persons: Adam Mosseri, It's, Meta, Instagram, Tessa Lyons, Instagram's, Nick Grudin, Justin Osofsky, who's, Charles, Eva Chen, shepherding, he'll Organizations: Instagram, Meta, Dapper Labs Locations: London

☆ Inside Reddit's path to an IPO, where employees see 'thrash' from constant pivots and say more managers may leave amid a flattening
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Reddit employees say the company has a bloated leadership structure with too many managers. They described some leadership moves and road-map changes that caused what one employee described as "thrash." Managers who attended the summit told employees that leadership suggested the company would in the second half of the year consolidate teams with managers overseeing fewer than six employees, two employees said. Leadership shake-upsReddit had some leadership changes earlier this year. Three employees described Lobez's departure as a surprise, as he was well liked within the data-science organization.

Persons: Reddit, Mark Zuckerberg, Shopify, Reddit hasn't, Steve Huffman, Jack Hanlon, Hanlon, Reddit's, Jose Lobez, Tyler Otto, who'd, Huffman, —, Lopez Organizations: Employees, Meta, Reddit Locations: New York City, Hipmunk

☆ Reddit vice president Jack Hanlon left earlier this year after overseeing major AI investments
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Reddit vice president, Jack Hanlon, left the company earlier this year after nearly four years. Hanlon led a team investing in artificial intelligence for both users and advertisers. A vice president of Reddit overseeing the integration of artificial intelligence into the company's products left earlier this year with the social-media company preparing to go public. Jack Hanlon, who was vice president of feeds, AI, search, and data, spent nearly four years at Reddit and led the purchase of AI companies meant to help Reddit improve its experience for users and ad targeting for brands. Reddit increased its investments in the field to grow its ad business in particular, as well as to automate content moderation.

Persons: Jack Hanlon, Hanlon, Reddit, Steve Huffman Organizations: Employees, Reddit, New York Times Locations: Reddit

☆ The US could restrict Chinese companies from using cloud service providers like Amazon and Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Chinese companies currently cannot purchase advanced chipsets from companies like Nvidia. The Biden administration could restrict block US-based cloud providers from supplying their services to Chinese companies, the Wall Street Journal reported. These new restrictions could curb American cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft from selling cloud access to AI developers in China. Chinese companies could still train complex AI programs by renting resources from the likes of AWS or Microsoft, both of which offer cloud services in China and compete with Chinese cloud providers like Alibaba. The White House, Commerce Department, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Nvidia, US, Morning, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Huawei, , Commerce Department, Amazon Locations: China, American, Montana

☆ Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Redditors said they'll no longer use the site after third-party app Apollo shut down. A popular third-party Reddit app shut down Friday – and some of the social network's users are pledging to walk away as a result. The app, which let Redditors access the platform through its own interface, had more than 1.5 million monthly users in June, Selig said, citing data from analytics firm Mixpanel. The Canadian developer previously said Reddit's demands for compensation were unreasonable compared with how much money Apollo made from paid subscriptions. Are you a Reddit user or employee with insight to share?

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☆ SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son thinks his firm will 'rule the world' thanks to its AI investments. Believe it or not, that's not as far-fetched as his previous claims.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the firm will be a winner in the AI race thanks to its investments. Arm, a key player in the design of AI chipsets and SoftBank's AI ambitions, is anticipated to go public soon. In a past presentation, Son predicted that life expectancy would increase to over 200 by the year 2400 and that humans will someday learn to coexist with intelligent robots. In 2017, SoftBank's Son predicted that humans will learn to co-exist with intelligent robots within the next 30 years. In a 2017 presentation, SoftBank speculated that humans will someday be able to communicate telepathically.

Persons: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, WeWork, it's, ByteDance, SoftBank's, Son, Elon, Neuralink . Son, SoftBank Son Organizations: Morning, Vision, SoftBank, Elon Musk's, Neuralink Locations: Coronavirus, Neuralink .

Top executives, like the head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, will be paving the app's way forward. Insider is highlighting 14 top executives at Instagram in 2023. As Instagram enters a new era, who else is among the most influential executives shaping the app? Insider has compiled a list of 14 top executives at Instagram who lead teams from product marketing to diversity and inclusion. Here are 14 top executives to know at Instagram in 2023:

Persons: Adam Mosseri, Meta, Instagram, Tessa Lyons, Instagram's, Nick Grudin, Justin Osofsky, who's, Charles, Eva Chen, shepherding, he'll Organizations: Instagram, Meta, Dapper Labs Locations: London, Barcelona

☆ YouTube TV contractors allege in NLRB complaint they were terminated in response to broader union organizing efforts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They allege they were let go as a union movement among Google contractors began to make inroads. The Alphabet Workers Union has filed a new complaint on Friday with the National Labor Relations Board against Google and its contractor Cognizant on behalf of three contract YouTube TV workers who were terminated. But Google told Insider that the layoffs occurred because it ended the YouTube TV contract. Mencini also said the company has "had many contracts with unionized suppliers and have no objection to Cognizant workers organizing or joining a union." Insider also previously reported that the AWU claims that Cognizant held meetings with YouTube TV contractors where they repeated anti-union talking points.

Persons: they'd, it's, we've, Courtenay Mencini, Mencini, Cognizant Organizations: Google, Alphabet Workers Union, National Labor Relations Board, YouTube, Austin, NLRB, YouTube Music Locations: Austin , Texas, Austin

☆ Meta employees are split on RTO. Some found loopholes to working in-person while others hope for 'a better experience' in office.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

During the pandemic, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he envisioned remote work sticking around for good. After recent layoffs, however, he changed his tune, saying remote workers were less productive. Apple, Amazon, and Snap are just a few others that have said workers must return to the office, causing consternation among some of their employees. Several current employees spoke to Insider about the reversal of Meta's remote work policy. As companies become anxious about slowing growth and a tighter economic climate, layoffs and eliminating remote work are strategies executives are implementing to try and boost productivity.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, We're, Marc Benioff, Meta's, there's Organizations: Meta, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google Locations: San Francisco

☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai is excited about Apple's Vision Pro, says efficiency drive will continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he's excited about Apple's Vision Pro but hasn't tried it yet. He said cost cuts and sharpened focus are "enduring work" and Google will continue to seek efficiency. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he's excited about the potential of technology like Apple's Vision Pro to create more immersive computing experiences. Asked about further cuts at Google, the CEO said that the company will continue to try and make itself more efficient. Going back to 2o14, the company released a virtual reality headset made out of cardboard that a smartphone would slide into and serve as a display.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, hasn't, Pichai, OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella's Organizations: Google, Bloomberg, Morning, VR, Microsoft Locations: 2o14

☆ Popular Reddit client Apollo will shut down after talks over new developer fees got 'ugly,' with allegations of blackmail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apollo, a popular third-party app for accessing Reddit, announced it will shut down June 30. The creator of Apollo said the new pricing policy would cost his app $20 million a year. The Apollo app has been swept up in this battle, which technically revolves around access to Reddit's application programming interface. Elon Musk has cracked down on API access, tooReddit is not the only company that's had enough of this. Twitter began clamping down on API access after Elon Musk acquired the company for $44 billion.

Persons: Reddit, Apollo, Steve Huffman, Christian Selig, Selig, Huffman, Elon Musk, that's Organizations: The New York Times, Google, Street, Twitter, Elon, Microsoft, Apollo

☆ Apple's new Vision Pro is 'the future of the Mac', one of the top minds in tech says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Stratechery founder Ben Thompson believes that Apple's Vision Pro is the "future of the Mac." The Vision Pro will start at $3,499, which is a steep price, likely signaling the cost of manufacturing a complex product. An example of what Apple Vision Pro may look like at work. Those who attended WWDC in person and were able to try the Vision Pro have said that it's a product in search of a purpose. Apple Vision Pro AppleThompson notes that Apple is using "high-bandwidth connections" to share desktop screens with the Vision Pro, suggesting it might create a direct WiFi connection between the two devices to prevent lag.

Persons: Ben Thompson, Thompson, Apple, Apple Thompson, Meta Organizations: Apple, Vision, Mac

☆ Tech is paying big salaries for engineering and developer jobs specializing in AI. Here's how much you can make.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tech companies are cutting costs in certain areas to focus spending on AI. See how much tech companies pay employees specializing in AI. However, one area where tech companies are investing is artificial intelligence. Google and other Big Tech giants are competing for talent against new entrants, most notably OpenAI, which created the AI chatbot ChatGPT and is one of today's hottest rising tech companies. Because of this, talented engineers with AI skills can command big salaries, despite tech workers having less power now than in recent history.

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☆ Apple just unveiled its $3,499 Vision Pro headset. Here are some of the coolest things it can do.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Called the Vision Pro, the $3,499 headset is Apple's vision for the future of personal computing. Apple on Monday held its annual WWDC keynote, where the company unveiled its much-anticipated mixed-reality headset that it's calling the Vision Pro. Regardless, the Vision Pro represents Apple's vision for the future of personal computers. But perhaps the Vision Pro with its signature Apple build quality and iOS integration is what the AR/VR industry needed all along to go mainstream. Below are the most interesting Vision Pro features:

Persons: Apple, Meta's, it's Organizations: Apple, Vision, Meta's

☆ Google opposed a shareholder proposal asking for more transparency around its AI algorithms
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google has opposed a shareholder's call for more transparency around its algorithms. CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized the potential of new generative AI and added safety is essential. Google's parent company Alphabet opposed a shareholder proposal that sought increased transparency surrounding its algorithms. It argued that accountability and transparency in artificial intelligence are needed if the technology is to remain safe to society. Google in its opposition to the proposal said that it already provides meaningful disclosures surrounding its algorithms, including through websites that provide overviews of how YouTube's algorithms sort content, for instance.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Pichai, We've, Geoffrey Hinton, Timnit Gebru, ProPublica Organizations: Google, Trillium Asset Management, Trillium, New Zealand Royal Commission, Mozilla Foundation, New York University, SEC, Google's Locations: Christchurch, Saudi Arabia

☆ Google's patents cover tech in ChatGPT. But fighting rivals in court isn't worth it, legal experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google invented AI technology like the Transformer, which led to breakthroughs in the chatbot race. Essentially, outside researchers gain access to a piece of AI technology from Google and continue iterating on it, which in turn benefits Google's own products. Several experts in patent law spoke to Insider about Google's AI patents, namely why it hasn't used them against competitors and whether it even could. Technical and legal questions aside, it would be somewhat hypocritical for Google to sue anyone for infringing its AI patents. Patent warsLegal experts pointed to the idea of "mutually assured destruction" to explain why tech companies would file patents without enforcing them offensively.

Persons: hasn't, Matthew D'Amore, Idong Ebong, Nixon Peabody Organizations: Google, Cornell University, Big Tech, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, HTC, IBM Locations: OpenAI, ChatGPT

☆ Apple's tax on AI inventions has begun. It will cost OpenAI and others hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The app quickly rocketed up to the top of the iOS App Store charts. Last week, OpenAI launched an iPhone app for ChatGPT that quickly shot to the top of the App Store. And yet, it will likely make hundreds of millions of dollars a year from this technology, while basically doing nothing. None of that is stopping Apple from offering the service to users through its App Store and reaping a profit on subscription sales. OpenAI is not doing that, perhaps because the process is a bit more clunky than using Apple's built-in payment processor.

☆ A former Googler who sued for pregnancy discrimination says tech giants should be held accountable, especially as pregnant workers get laid off
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former Googler Chelsey Glasson acknowledges that the recent tech downturn could stifle dissent from people who may face pregnancy discrimination. She's speaking about her experiences in a book she is publishing called "Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir." In addition, 1 in 5 mothers said they experienced pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. One change that could help the industry would be some means of making funding available for people suing over pregnancy discrimination, she added. "Black Box: A Pregnancy Discrimination Memoir" will be published on August 29.

☆ Amazon Web Services salaries: See how much engineers, analysts and hundreds of others at the cloud computing giant were paid before layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

See how much Amazon paid employees across the AWS business in 2022. Amazon Web Services' hiring has hit a low point. Insider combed data from that office, which authorizes hiring non-US employees and then publicly releases the data. Insider sorted through the hundreds of disclosed salaries that represent engineers, product managers, and more, to find out what the cloud giant was paying employees last year. Here's a breakdown of what AWS paid its developers, product managers, analysts, and other key roles through the end of 2022:

☆ Google is downsizing its contract workforce that supports YouTube, shortly after one contractor team's union victory
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Workers in Austin recently formed a collective bargaining group with the Alphabet Workers Union. The move comes shortly after a group of Cognizant workers supporting YouTube Music voted 41-0 in favor of unionizing with the Alphabet Workers Union, which is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America, a larger trade union. The cuts did not impact the YouTube Music team, which helps curate themed playlists and review song metadata. The Cognizant team supporting YouTube TV had been in early talks to form their own union following the group at YouTube Music, according to three workers there. Cognizant also confirmed in an email that its contract supporting YouTube TV is ending.

☆ Google tells staff it plans to limit publishing AI research to 'compete and keep knowledge in house' as its rivalry with Microsoft's OpenAI heats up
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Google told staff it will be more selective about the research it publishes. Recently, information like code and data has become accessible on a "much more on a need-to-know" basis, according to a Google AI staffer. LaMDA, a chatbot technology that forms the basis of Bard, was originally built as a 20 percent project within Google Brain. (The company has historically allowed employees to spend 20% of their working days exploring side projects that might turn into full-fledged Google products.) Google's AI division has faced other setbacks.

☆ Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk was the 'only alternative' for Twitter because it would have 'never survived' as a public company
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jack Dorsey said Elon Musk had been the "only alternative" to Twitter falling into the wrong hands. Twitter would "never" have survived as a public company, the former CEO said on Bluesky. Jack Dorsey said Elon Musk was the "only alternative" to Twitter being taken over by "Wall Street activists" even if he didn't turn out as the "best possible" leader for the company. But in response to a question from Insider's Thomas Maxwell, Dorsey said: "The company would have never survived as a public company. Would you rather have had it owned by hedge funds and Wall Street activists?"

☆ YouTube Music contractors won a historic union election, which means Google could have to negotiate with a labor group for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Contact workers who support YouTube Music won their union election 41-0. Contract workers who support YouTube Music have won their union election and will now prepare to bargain for a labor contract. The Alphabet Workers Union launched in 2021 and represents both full-time workers employed directly by Google as well as its large contract workforce. Some Google contractors can command high salaries, while many — like those at Cognizant — make as little as $19 an hour. The YouTube Music contractors initially began organizing to seek a guaranteed work-from-home policy, saying that it's too expensive to live in Austin on the wages offered.

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