An Alabama contract worker was arrested and criminally charged in connection to the death of a toddler who was left for hours inside a hot car, prosecutors said Friday. Kela Stanford, 54, is accused of one count of leaving a child or an incapacitated person unattended in a motor vehicle resulting in serious physical injury, according to the Jefferson County …
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Is AI causing tech worker layoffs? That’s what CEOs suggest, but the reality is complicated
If you read the typical 2025 mass layoff notice from a tech industry CEO, you might think that artificial intelligence cost workers their jobs. The reality is more complicated, with companies trying to signal to Wall Street that they’re making themselves more efficient as they prepare for broader changes wrought by AI. A new report Wednesday from career website Indeed …
Read More »Council in Peterborough turns experienced worker into AI chatbot
Emma Howgego BBC political reporter, Peterborough Peterborough City Council Geraldine Jinks has worked for Peterborough City Council for 35 years The knowledge of an experienced council worker has been turned into an AI chatbot to help fellow employees. Geraldine Jinks has worked for Peterborough City Council for 35 years as a therapy practitioner supporting adult social care, and her colleagues …
Read More »Arizona woman sentenced over $17 million North Korea worker fraud scheme – The Washington Post
Arizona woman sentenced over $17 million North Korea worker fraud scheme The Washington Post Arizona woman sentenced to 8 years in prison for hosting ‘laptop farm’ for North Korean remote workers Politico Arizona woman sentenced in North Korean tech-worker scheme CNN US woman gets 8-year sentence for stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs BBC Woman learns fate after DOJ guilty plea admitting she …
Read More »China Stops US Commerce Worker From Leaving Country, Media Say – Bloomberg
China Stops US Commerce Worker From Leaving Country, Media Say Bloomberg U.S. citizen who works for Commerce Dept. ensnared in Chinese exit ban The Washington Post China Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Executive Stokes Foreign Business Anxiety The New York Times Exclusive | U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China The Wall Street Journal US government worker, target of exit ban, kept from …
Read More »China imposes exit bans on Wells Fargo banker, U.S. government worker
The Chinese government is preventing a Wells Fargo employee, as well as an employee of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, from leaving the country. File Photo by Larry W. Smith/EPA-EFE July 20 (UPI) — The Chinese government is preventing a Chinese American banker for Wells Fargo and, separately, an employee of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from leaving …
Read More »SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals
SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a sprawling launch-and-manufacturing site that recently incorporated as its own Texas city, logged injury rates that were almost 6x higher than the average for comparable space vehicle-manufacturing outfits and nearly 3x …
Read More »SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals
SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a sprawling launch-and-manufacturing site that recently incorporated as its own Texas city, logged injury rates almost six times higher than the average for comparable space vehicle manufacturing outfits and nearly three …
Read More »Farm worker who died after California Ice raid was ‘hardworking and innocent’, family says | California
The farm worker who died from injuries he sustained after falling from a greenhouse roof during an Ice raid of a California cannabis farm was a “hard-working, innocent farmer” and the sole provider for his wife and daughter, his family says. Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county where authorities …
Read More »Goldman Sachs doesn’t have to hire a $180,000 software engineer—meet Devin, its new AI-powered worker
The newest hire at Goldman Sachs won’t be able to have a coffee chat with coworker Rishi Sunak, or attend the firm’s after-work happy hour. Rather, it will be working all day on its coding assignments. The Wall Street investment bank recently unveiled it had hired Devin: a new AI-powered autonomous software engineer, created by AI startup Cognition. With the …
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