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Et Tu, Duo? The popular language-learning app Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a push to integrate generative AI into its services, multiple outlets have reported. A Duolingo spokesperson confirmed the December 2023 workforce slash to Bloomberg on Monday, claiming that DuoLingo "just no longer [needs] as many people to do […]

Other company, spacex, is doing a big ad buy, guess where? on twitter! with before, so a ship, or managing editor of platform or. there are so many threads on this twitter situation, what are you tracking? what do you think is most important right now? >> i mean there is a lot going on, like you said, the two big stories right now are must a big putt since he became ceo, its obviously paid verification. he wants to move twitter off being so dependent on as right now. as a 90% of voters revenue c...

Being so dependent on as right now. i think 90% of twitters revenue comes from adds. he was more of that to come from subscriptions, so physically for people to be paid to be verified on twitter. the rollout of that was completely disastrous which we can get into. but the other big threat is just all of a layoff that are happening which you touched on earlier. he laid off have a company, a week ago maybe 80% of the percent of the contract workforce. maybe 20 engineers last night saying critical ...

Quarantine facilities have been made available from Eastern to Southern India while tie-ups with 144 hospitals have been made to provide medical care to the infected workforce, the company said.

Policy. what do you think of bereavement policy looks like. >> i think across the board we are the 21st century. we need workforce policies and we dont have them. the policies need to include not just full-time workers, but our contractors. because there is a large contract workforce out there. im proud of what facebook has done. e we went to a $15 minimum wage for anyone who is a contractor of size to any vender we have. and we also made sure people got paid leave. bereavement leave is really i...