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Musk begins his Twitter ownership with firings, declares the ‘bird is freed’

Musk begins his Twitter ownership with firings, declares the ‘bird is freed’

By Sheila Dang and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – Elon Musk has taken ownership of Twitter Inc with brutal efficiency, firing top executives immediately but providing little clarity over how he will achieve the lofty ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform. “The bird is freed,” he tweeted after he completed his $44 billion acquisition on Thursday, referencing Twitter’s bird logo in an apparent nod to his desire to see the company have fewer limits on content that can… Source link

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Musk begins his Twitter ownership with firings, declares the ‘bird is freed’

Musk begins his Twitter ownership with firings, declares the ‘bird is freed’

By Sheila Dang and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) -Elon Musk has taken ownership of Twitter Inc with brutal efficiency, firing top executives but providing little clarity over how he will achieve the ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform. “The bird is freed,” he tweeted after he completed his $44 billion acquisition on Thursday, referencing Twitter’s bird logo in an apparent nod to his desire to see the company have fewer limits on content that can be… Source link

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Top Google leader resigns after firings over diversity

Following a series of firings at Google of employees who wrote a paper review and questioned its diversity practices, the company’s research manager, Samy Bengio, quit. Bengio’s resignation came after the departure of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two high-profile female researchers in ethical AI, the former is Black and latter is white, the Daily Dot reported. In December, Gebru got fired for standing up against management who disagreed with her research paper she co-wrote on Google’s… Source link

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Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues’ firings: email

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link

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Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues’ firings: email

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link

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Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues’ firings: email

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link

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Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues’ firings: email

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link

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