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A former Google employee activist who helped organize a huge walkout is joining the FTC
Meredith Whittaker was one of the lead organizers of a massive employee walkout at Google in 2018, …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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A former Google engineer said she endured a year of harassment. She's now vowing to 'never love a job again.'
Google's poor handling of Emi Nietfeld's harassment accusations led her to sour on the tech company…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Signal president says generative AI is 'definitely a bubble' and Nvidia's market is going to 'die for a second'
Signal's president Meredith Whittaker said AI is a bubble and that it urgently needs to be regulate…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Signal president says she spent 2 sleepless days dealing with the fallout of Elon Musk's criticism
Signal president Meredith Whittaker called an Elon Musk tweet "baseless," and that it caused her mu…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Signal CEO: OpenAI's ScarJo stunt is some 'edge lord' nonsense
Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker called out OpenAI's handling of the Scarlett Johansson voice saga and…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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In the battle of Telegram vs Signal, Elon Musk casts doubt on the security of the app he once championed
Elon Musk, once a champion of the encrypted messenger Signal, now says the app's leadership has not…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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AI's most famous leaders are in a huge fight after one said Big Tech is cynically exaggerating the risk of AI wiping out humanity
An ex-Google scientist has sparked an online battle after suggesting claims about AI being an exist…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Washington crowned a bunch of rich dudes the most important people in AI
Chuck Schumer is due to host an AI insight forum on Capitol Hill in September, but many of the atte…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Signal's president doubts Elon Musk can successfully turn Twitter into a 'super app' like WeChat
Meredith Whittaker said in a recent interview that factors like competition and government support …
Kali Hays
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Google employees who tested its ChatGPT rival Bard reportedly called it 'cringeworthy' and a 'pathological liar,' and said the AI's responses could 'result in serious injury or death'
"Bard is worse than useless: please do not launch," one Google employee wrote in an internal group …
Aaron Mok
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Another leader of the giant Google Walkout protest is leaving the company
The council fell apart after the appointment of right-wing think tank head Kay Cole James, which sp…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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More than 200 Google employees have formed a union, and workers are calling it 'a long time coming' after years of turmoil inside the company
The Alphabet Workers Union will be open to all 120,000 employees in the US and Canada, and is inten…
Avery Hartmans
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A top Google researcher gave a spooky talk about how Silicon Valley companies could one day read and store our thoughts
AI is one of the tech sector's hottest fields. All the big companies, including Google, Facebook, I…
Business Insider
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A top Google researcher gave a spooky talk about how Silicon Valley companies could one day read and store our thoughts
AI is one of the tech sector's hottest fields. All the big companies, including Google, Facebook, I…
Greg Sandoval
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10 things in tech you need to know today
Facebook's AI still misses obvious instances of misinformation and a modded iPhone is auctioning fo…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Googlers say the company is trying to crush worker organization after it fired 4 people
"Around the same time Google redrafted its policies, making it a fireable offense to even look at c…
Charlie Wood
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Two Google employees who spearheaded the walkout against sexual misconduct say the company has retaliated and demoted them
Whittaker is the head of Google's Open Research group, and the cofounder of research lab AI Now Ins…
Paige Leskin
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45 Google employees told their stories of alleged retaliation, sexual harassment, and racism in a leaked document
"Reporting misconduct takes courage and we want to provide care and support to people who raise con…
Nick Bastone
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One of the main organizers of the Google Walkout has left the company over fears of 'public flogging, shunning, and stress' if she stayed
In the wake of the Google Walkout, Stapleton alleged that Google had retaliated against her, and th…
Nick Bastone
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Another key employee activist is leaving Google amid claims of burnout and 'retaliation,' but says the 'movement is strong'
At Google, Knapp co-authored a safe-workplace petition that gathered over 2,500 hundred signatures,…