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The Tesla Model 3 dropped from first place to third, behind the Toyota Camry and the Honda Civic, among all passenger cars sold.

Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much "work around the work" as he laid off 17% of the group's workforce in December.

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/8QkSl

Yelp says going all in on remote work boosted job applications by 43% and led to a more satisfied workforce::The company’s WFH strategy boosted job applications and worker fulfillment.

Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’::Managers are running out of ways to say you no longer have a job, but the way the bad news is delivered is more important than ever.

Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy::Laura Chambers will step in as interim CEO to run operations until a permanent replacement is found.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says ‘AI is really in the air now’ and is planning to train 2 million Gen Z in India with tech skills::Microsoft says 90% of Indian leaders need workers prepared for the rise of AI—but 78% of workers say they don’t have the right knowledge.

Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’::X's trust and safety center was planned for over a year and is significantly smaller than the initially envisioned 500-person team.

Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer::With the help of Axiom 3 astronauts on the International Space Station, a cancer "kill switch" drug may make it to clinical trials before year's end.

Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks::In ‘most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history’.

EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold on the site — the kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl::The kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.

Not sure if this falls under in person activism, but thought it might be of interest. Short version, he uploaded to a website he controlled instead of using a USB stick or a commercial file sharing service

Even executives who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn’t improve productivity: tech firm — Atlassian reports on first 1,000 days of its work-from-anywhere workforce::1 in 3 bosses whose people are required to work in-person told Atlassian that it doesn’t move the needle.

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

Lawmakers declare war on deepfakes that threaten to upend this year’s presidential election::State lawmakers rather than federal officials are leading the charge against AI-generated images that are intended to influence voting.

The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month::Founder Rubén Cruz said AI model Aitana was so convincing that a famous Latin actor asked her on a date.