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Intuit cut 1 in 6 employees Wednesday. The CEO went on TV and said it had nothing to do with AI. The internal memo says the layoff is paying for Anthropic and OpenAI.
Intuit said it was not AI; the memo to staff said the layoff is paying for Anthropic and OpenAI. A London bank CEO called staff 'lower-value human capital' and walked it back. Denver apologized for approving a data center. Samsung workers won AI-revenue bonuses. Copilot is opening your Outlook by default.
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Read the full analysis on Substack ›1. Intuit cut 1 in 6 employees Wednesday. The CEO went on Mad Money and said it had nothing to do with AI. The internal memo says the layoff is paying for Anthropic and OpenAI.
If you do your taxes with TurboTax, run a small business on QuickBooks, check your score on Credit Karma, or send marketing email through Mailchimp, the company building the software in your hand just cut one in six of its people and paid the savings to the two AI labs whose mod…
cnbc.com: Intuit CEO says company's 17% workforce cut had 'nothing to do with AI'
2. The CEO of a London bank with 8,000 AI-driven job cuts coming called his workers "lower-value human capital" Tuesday. Wednesday morning he walked it back.
If you have ever wondered how the executives running the AI layoffs at your company actually talk about the workers when they think only their investors are listening, the CEO of one of the world's largest international banks gave you the unedited transcript this week, and you d…
3. Denver city council apologized for the data center they already approved, voted unanimous moratorium, and the pause takes effect today.
If you live in any town where a hyperscaler is currently scouting land, your sitting council members now have a public template for saying out loud that they got the last data-center vote wrong, freezing the next one, and writing the rules afterward.
4. Forty-eight thousand Samsung chip workers called off an 18-day strike Wednesday after the company agreed to share AI-driven profits with the people making the chips that train AI.
If you work at a company that has posted record AI-related revenue while flat-lining bonuses or compensation pools, the number to put in front of your manager is now public: Samsung agreed to 10.5 percent of business performance profits, tied directly to the AI-driven chip reven…
5. Microsoft is turning Copilot on inside Outlook by default this month. Highlight any email and an AI offers to summarize the thread for you.
If you read sensitive email at work (client information, salary letters, internal HR threads, anything covered by an NDA), Microsoft is about to let an AI read the highlighted text from those emails by default starting this month, and your tenant admin is the one who chose your…
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