Employees of Paramount Global have been through the wringer over the last year and a half. And the uncertainty hanging over their heads is far from over. After M&A talks with Skydance Media that started in late 2023 whipped back and forth, the parties in July 2024 announced they had reached a deal to merge. Then Paramount endured another year …
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Microsoft CEO Calls Job Cuts + Big Profits the ‘Enigma of Success’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent a note to employees on Thursday explaining why the company has cut thousands of jobs while generating huge profits and spending billions on AI. “This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value,” Nadella wrote. “Progress isn’t linear. It’s dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it’s also a new …
Read More »Inside the Private Layoff Groups Easing the Pain of Job Loss
After getting let go from Meta in February, Shayna Moon accepted an invitation to a private LinkedIn chat where she recognized the names of its roughly 40 members. All were former colleagues who’d also been dismissed from the tech giant. Moon, who’d been laid off earlier in her career from Microsoft, said she shared tips with the group on how …
Read More »Random: DK Enthusiast Breaks Switch 2 In Bananas Spray Painting Job Gone Wrong
Image: Nintendo Well… you know how it goes. Some days you wake up, look at your copy of Donkey Kong Bananza, with special focus being paid to the fact that its cart is red and not yellow like the old Donkey Kong 64 one, and you decide that’s just not gonna cut it. No, sir. Yep, as reported by Dexerto, …
Read More »Woman issues stark warning about plastic surgery as she claims nose job ‘ruined’ her face
A woman has issued a stark warning about plastic surgery after she claimed her nose job ‘ruined’ her face. Wendy Macias, 36, from Los Angeles, California, has been self conscious about her nose ever since she was a little girl. At age five, her brothers started to pick on her and called her ‘Narizona,’ which means ‘big nosed girl’ in …
Read More »Nebraska’s Matt Rhule defends Scott Frost over comment that coaching Huskers was ‘wrong job’
LAS VEGAS — Nebraska coach Matt Rhule on Tuesday stood up for his predecessor Scott Frost, who faced criticism in the wake of his assessment earlier this month that the Huskers job was wrong for him. Speaking at Big Ten media days, Rhule said Nebraska displayed a large photo of Frost, taken during his time as a quarterback at the …
Read More »Matt Rhule Says Nebraska Football ‘Was Not a Good Job,’ But Is ‘the Right Job for Me’
LAS VEGAS—Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule is in agreement with his predecessor. Last week at Big 12 Football Media Days, UCF coach Scott Frost said to “not take the wrong job”, he “didn’t really want to” take the Nebraska job, and that “it wasn’t a good move.” On Tuesday, on the first day of Big Ten Football Media Days in …
Read More »OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI | Sam Altman
During his latest trip to Washington, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, painted a sweeping vision of an AI-dominated future in which entire job categories disappear, presidents follow ChatGPT’s recommendations and hostile nations wield artificial intelligence as a weapon of mass destruction, all while positioning his company as the indispensable architect of humanity’s technological destiny. Speaking at the Capital Framework for …
Read More »The Senate successors avoiding GOP primary drama and AI fueled job cuts: Morning Rundown
JD Vance and Marco Rubio’s Senate successors are cruising to the primaries. Artificial intelligence is fueling job cuts and anxiety in the tech world. And a new genetic test may predict a child’s risk of obesity in adulthood. Here’s what to know today. Vance and Rubio’s Senate successors avoid GOP primary drama As JD Vance and Marco Rubio shot to …
Read More »Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z this job is a slow ‘drift into hell’ that’ll make you unemployable for life
Many business school students coming out of Stanford University, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania are already stepping into their swanky Wall Street jobs. But multimillionaire investor Kevin O’Leary is urging his Harvard students to skip the typical consulting track—and build something of their own instead. “Look, if you want to drift into hell on Earth, stay 24 …
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