Google “at least” $50 million through 2030 on “projects designed to eliminate superpollutants.” The company will be joined by a handful of other companies including Amazon and Salesforce in the newly formed . In total, these companies have committed $100 million to the project, hoping to “accelerate the reduction” of superpollutants like methane, black carbon…
A layoff doesn’t just remove your role. It disrupts your sense of professional stability. I’ve led workforce reductions at Amazon, Microsoft, and inside private equity-backed companies. I’ve sat in decision meetings where headcount decisions were debated alongside budgets and operating models. I’ve helped leaders understand how layoffs affect company culture. I’ve also supported leaders and…
It might sound like the stuff of daydreams now, but once upon a time it was briefly the very real intention of Sony and Nintendo to collaborate on a console. Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in…
The latest U.S. jobs report is out, and it isn’t pretty. The economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, missing expectations, as unemployment rose to 4.4%, according to data from the Labor Department. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February. “The headline number is bad, and after you dig into the details, it isn’t much…
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos’ orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects’ orbit around the sun, according to new research. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a press release that this “marks the first time a human-made object has measurably…
When leaders lose credibility, the explanation usually sounds simple: · “I should have phrased that better.” · “I didn’t say the right thing.” It is easy to point to a sentence or word choice and assume that is where things went pear-shaped. But what most leaders label as a content problem is actually a presence…
Here comes another disappointment for ChatGPT users. As first reported by Sources‘ Alex Heath, OpenAI is yet again delaying its “adult mode” for ChatGPT. A company spokesperson told Heath that “we’re pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now.” More…
Have you found that you now struggle to get through a book? If so, I have good and bad news for you. The bad news is that losing your ability to read books may be common at the moment, but neuroscience says it is a very bad sign for how our brains are doing. The better news is that…
OpenAI is going to need to find a new head of robotics. Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI’s now-former head of robotics, posted on X that she was resigning from her role, while criticizing the company’s haste in partnering with the Department of Defense without investigating proper guardrails. Kalinowski, who previously worked at Meta before leaving to join…
Meetings in corporate America are broken—and only breaking down more. Globally, people sit in three times as many meetings as they did before the pandemic, 60% of meetings are ad hoc, rather than scheduled, and 71% of people regularly multitask through them. When poorly-run meetings become the norm, people begin to see them as a…
