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subscription plans\nMicrosoft's mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases\nWith shares at 10-year lows, Ubisoft faces questions over its future\nPayPal CEO's first year was praised by Wall Street, but hard part starts now\nRobinhood rival Freetrade buys UK arm of Australian investing platform Stake\nRobinhood launches crypto deposits and withdrawals in Europe\nCybersecurity firm Proofpoint considers pre-IPO funding as it eyes 2026 IPO\nHands-on with Meta's Orion augmented-reality smart glasses prototype", + "Top News": [ + "tesla set to report q3 deliveries ahead of robotaxi event ", + "microsoft's mammoth ai bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases ", + "microsoft copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you ", + "anthropic hires openai co-founder durk kingma ", + "a comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs" + ], + "Generate_script_prompt": "\n Prompt: Give a quick tech news update script in the style of CNBC techcheck briefing as an example.\n Response: I'm Wall-E, and this is your CNBC techcheck Briefing for Monday April 29th. Tesla is asking shareholders to reinstate CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, which a Delaware judge voided earlier this year. The judge ruled that the record-setting compensation deal was, quote, deeply flawed. Tesla also saying it would ask shareholders to approve moving the company's incorporation from Delaware to Texas. The company has hired a proxy solicitor and plans to spend millions of dollars to help secure votes for the two proposals. Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company plans to look at manufacturing in Indonesia following a meeting with the country's president, Cook telling reporters following the meeting that he spoke with the president about his desire to see manufacturing there and that he believes in the country. The comments come as Apple is pushed to diversify its supply chain with more manufacturing outside of China in countries such as Vietnam and India. Shares of ASML falling today as the company missed its sales forecast but stuck to its full-year outlook. Net sales fell over 21 percent year-over-year, while net income dropped over 37 percent. ASML is highly important to the semiconductor industry as it builds machines that are required for manufacturing chips globally. Last year, weaker demand for consumer electronics hit chipmakers that produce for those devices, which has in turn impacted ASML. That's all for today. We'll see you back here tomorrow.\n Prompt: Give a quick tech news update script in the style of CNBC techcheck briefing using the following news titles and content. Closely follow how CNBC techcheck chooses context to put into the script, the langauge style and sentence structure. Use the same beginning and ending(including mentioning host Wall-E and Wednesday October 2), and replace CNBC techcheck briefing to 'AI briefing' \n \"title0:\nTesla set to report Q3 deliveries ahead of robotaxi event\ndescription0:\nTesla Chief Executive, Elon Musk enters the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 6, 2017.\nTesla is set to report third-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers on Wednesday.\nAnalysts are expecting Elon Musk's automaker to report about 463,310 deliveries, according to estimates compiled by FactSet StreetAccount. That would include about 435,900 of Tesla's Model 3 sedans and Model Y SUVs.\nTesla reported deliveries of 435,059 and production of 430,488 vehicles for the same period a year ago, before it was selling the Cybertruck. More recently, Tesla reported deliveries of 443,956 and production of 410,831 vehicles for the second quarter of 2024.\nIf Tesla meets analysts' expectations that would represent a 6.5% year-over-year increase for deliveries after declines in the first and second quarters of 2024.\nDeliveries are not defined in Tesla's financial disclosures, but they are the closest approximation to units sold reported by the company.\nIn the third quarter, as it did earlier this year, Tesla continued to offer a variety of incentives and financing plans to drive sales volumes, particularly in the largest market for EVs in the world, mainland China.\nTesla hasn't given specific guidance for the full year of deliveries in 2024, but the company has said it expects a lower delivery growth rate this year versus last. Wells Fargo, pointing to this lack of guidance, said in a note that it's expecting 1.63 million full-year deliveries for Tesla and third-quarter deliveries at around 440,000, below consensus.\nGoldman Sachs last week said it expects Tesla deliveries and production \"to come in-line with consensus, largely driven by the strength in the China market.\" Goldman Sachs recommended buying call options ahead of the Wednesday report.\nRobotaxi day in focus\nShares in the EV maker are up more than 20% over the past month, in anticipation that deliveries could improve year over year and sequentially in the third quarter, and ahead of the company's robotaxi day on Oct. 10.\nTesla plans to host investors and fans at its \"We, Robot\" marketing event at a Warner Bros. Discovery movie studio in Los Angeles.\nThe automaker is expected to show off the design of a \"dedicated robotaxi,\" which Musk has referred to previously as the CyberCab. Tesla may also provide updates on its humanoid robotics project \"Optimus\" and other automotive and AI-driven products and services.\nTesla EV sales and revenue fell in the first half of 2024, and the company still has yet to deliver a self-driving system that can function as a robotaxi without a human driver at the wheel ready to steer or brake at any time. Tesla also renamed its premium driver assistance option to Full Self-Driving Supervised, tacking on a disclaimer-style term at the end.\nMeanwhile, several rivals in the autonomous vehicle industry have begun producing robotaxis, and operating commercial robotaxi services. Rivals include Alphabet -owned Waymo in the U.S., and Pony.ai and Baidu in China. Amazon -owned Zoox is preparing a launch of a commercial robotaxi service in the U.S. as well.\nTesla brand erosion\nSome customer interest in buying Tesla vehicles has been chilled by the brand's strong association with Musk.\nThe company's favorability among both liberal and conservative consumers fell in July, according to CivicScience. Tesla favorability dropped with Democrats to 18% in July, down from 39% in January, and it declined among Republicans to 22%, down from 36% in January.\nMusk \u2014 who also leads SpaceX, X and xAI \u2014 has long shared provocative posts on social media, but in recent years, he's become less filtered and more vociferous online about his right-wing political beliefs.\nIn July, he publicly endorsed former President Donald Trump, and he frequently posts screeds on X concerning illegal immigration, election fraud, crime, violence and other flashpoint issues.\nHe has shared political misinformation and deepfakes with his massive online following on X, according to reports by The Associated Press, CNN, NBC News, The New York Times and others. Before Musk acquired Twitter, now known as X, his feed focused more on Tesla and SpaceX, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.\nAmong the posts Musk recently spread on X were false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people's pets. The Springfield Police Division, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and other local groups have all said the claims were baseless.\nIt remains to be seen whether left-leaning customers' view of Musk will weigh on deliveries this year. Pew Research has found that Democrats have a much more favorable view of battery-electric vehicles and are more likely to buy them than Republicans in the U.S.\n\ntitle1:\nMicrosoft AI bet shows up in finance leases that haven't yet commenced\ndescription1:\nMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia's biggest economy to spur growth.\nAs Microsoft investors get ready for quarterly earnings this month, there's one particular metric that's become increasingly important: finance leases.\nA finance lease lets a company pay for an asset over years, rather than all upfront. For companies like Microsoft that are building massive data centers to handle artificial intelligence workloads, shareholders have to get used to some big numbers.\nIn July, Microsoft told investors in a footnote of its annual report that finance leases that had not yet begun had soared to $108.4 billion, up $20.6 billion from the quarter before, and nearly $100 billion higher than two years earlier. Leases will commence between the 2025 and 2030 fiscal years, and will run for up to 20 years, the filing said.\nOverall, Microsoft made $19 billion in capital expenditures in the latest quarter. The total, which includes assets acquired under finance leases, was up from $14 billion in the March quarter and was as much as Microsoft shelled out in the entire 2020 fiscal year.\n\"It's an insane ramp,\" said Charles Fitzgerald, a former Microsoft manager who writes about capital expenditures on his blog Platformonomics.\nInvestors will get further clarity on Microsoft's lease finances when the company reports fiscal first-quarter results in late October. Executives at Microsoft and other top tech companies have approved higher capital expenditures in the past two years, often to boost their performance in generative AI.\nLast month Microsoft confirmed its participation in a fund to back the development of data centers and the necessary energy infrastructure, mainly in the U.S. It also signed a 20-year power purchase agreement to restart a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.\n\ntitle2:\nMicrosoft Copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you\ndescription2:\nA week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching new Copilot capabilities on Windows for all users, including a tool that can understand and respond to questions about what\u2019s on your screen.\nRefreshed Copilot apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and the web are rolling out today, and all feature a Copilot with a more \u201cwarm\u201d and \u201cdistinct\u201d style, as Microsoft describes it. Microsoft is also bringing the chatbot to WhatsApp, letting users chat with Copilot via DM, similar to the experience you get with other bots on Meta\u2019s messaging platform.\nCopilot Vision\nCopilot Vision has a view of what you\u2019re viewing on your PC \u2014 more specifically, a lens into the sites you\u2019re visiting with Microsoft Edge. Gated behind Copilot Labs, a new Copilot Pro-exclusive opt-in program for experimental Copilot capabilities, Copilot Vision can analyze text and images on web pages and answer queries (e.g., \u201cWhat\u2019s the recipe for the food in this picture?\u201d) about them.\nVision, which can be pulled up by typing \u201c@copilot\u201d in Edge\u2019s address bar, isn\u2019t exactly a technical marvel. Google offers similar search technology on Android, and recently brought bits and pieces of that tech to Chrome as well.\nBut Microsoft suggests that Copilot Vision is more powerful and conscious of privacy than previous screen-analyzing features.\n\u201cCopilot Vision can \u2026 suggest next steps, answer questions, help navigate whatever it is you want to do, and assist with tasks, all while you simply speak to it in natural language,\u201d Microsoft wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. \u201cImagine you\u2019re trying to furnish a new apartment. Copilot Vision can help you search for furniture, find the right color palette, think through your options on everything from rugs to throws, and even suggest ways of arranging what you\u2019re looking at.\u201d\nUsing Copilot Vision to ask questions about a photo on the web. Image Credits: Microsoft\nNo doubt eager to avoid another round of bad press from AI privacy fumbles, Microsoft is stressing that Copilot Vision was designed to delete data immediately following conversations. Processed audio, images, or text aren\u2019t stored or used to train models, the company claims \u2014 at least not in this preview version.\nCopilot Vision is also limited in the types of websites that it can interpret. For the time being, Microsoft\u2019s blocking the feature from working on paywalled and \u201csensitive\u201d content, limiting Vision to a pre-approved list of \u201cpopular\u201d web properties.\nWhat does \u201csensitive\u201d content entail, exactly? Porn? Violence? At this juncture, Microsoft wouldn\u2019t say.\nAccusations of circumventing paywalls with AI tools have landed Microsoft in legal hot water in the recent past. In an ongoing lawsuit, The New York Times alleged that Microsoft allowed users to get around its paywall by serving NY Times articles through the Copilot chatbot on Bing. When prompted in a certain way, Copilot \u2014 which is powered by close Microsoft collaborator OpenAI\u2019s models \u2014 would give verbatim (or close-to-verbatim) snippets of paid stories, according to The Times.\nMicrosoft said that Copilot Vision, which is U.S.-only at the moment, will respect sites\u2019 \u201cmachine-readable controls on AI\u201d \u2014 like rules that disallow bots from scraping data for AI training. But the company hasn\u2019t said precisely which controls Vision will respect; there are several in use. We\u2019ve asked Microsoft for clarification.\nMany major publishers have opted to block AI tools from trawling their websites not only out of fear their data will be used without permission, but also to prevent these tools from sending their server costs soaring. If the current trend holds, Copilot Vision may not work on some of the web\u2019s top news sites.\nMicrosoft said it\u2019s committed to \u201ctaking feedback\u201d to allay concerns.\n\u201cBefore we launch broadly, we\u2019ll continue to \u2026 refine our safety measures and keep privacy and responsibility at the center of everything we do,\u201d Microsoft said in the blog post. \u201cThere is no specific processing of the content of a website you are browsing [with Copilot], nor any AI training \u2014 Copilot Vision simply reads and interprets the images and text it sees on the page for the first time along with you.\u201d\nThink Deeper\nAs with Vision, Copilot\u2019s new Think Deeper feature is an attempt to make Microsoft\u2019s assistant more versatile.\nThink Deeper gives Copilot the ability to reason through more complex problems, Microsoft said, thanks to \u201creasoning models\u201d that take more time before responding with step-by-step answers.\nWhich reasoning models? Microsoft was a bit cagey when I asked, saying only that Think Deeper uses \u201cthe latest models from OpenAI, fine-tuned by Microsoft.\u201d Reading between the lines, it\u2019s a safe bet that they\u2019re a customized version of OpenAI\u2019s o1 model.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve designed Think Deeper to be helpful for all kinds of practical, everyday challenges, like comparing two complex options side by side,\u201d Microsoft wrote in a blog post. \u201cThink Deeper can help with anything from solving tough math problems to weighing up the costs of managing home projects.\u201d\nMicrosoft talked up Think Deeper\u2019s potential quite a bit in its press materials. But assuming the model underneath is o1, it will most certainly fall short in some areas. We\u2019re curious to see what sort of enhancements Microsoft made to the base model and how forthcoming Think Deeper is about its limitations.\nThink Deeper will be available from today to a limited number of Copilot Labs users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S., and the U.K.\nCopilot Voice\nA new Copilot feature generally available today is Copilot Voice (not to be confused with GitHub\u2019s Copilot Voice). Launching in English in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. to start, Voice adds four synthetic voices, letting you talk to Copilot and have its responses be spoken aloud.\nImage Credits: Microsoft\nLike OpenAI\u2019s Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT, Copilot Voice can pick up on your tone during conversations and respond accordingly, and you can interject at any point while Copilot Voice is answering. A Microsoft spokesperson told me that the mode uses \u201cthe latest voice technology with new models that have been fine-tuned for the Copilot app.\u201d What tech? Which models? On the specifics, mum\u2019s the word.\nOne thing to be aware of: Copilot Voice has a time-based usage limit. Copilot Pro subscribers get more minutes but the number is \u201cvariable,\u201d Microsoft told me, depending on demand.\nPersonalization\nCopilot will soon become more tailored to your likes and preferences, Microsoft said, thanks to a new personalization setting.\nWhen the setting is enabled, Copilot will draw on your past interactions and history, as well as your interactions with other Microsoft apps and services (Microsoft won\u2019t say which) to recommend ways to use Copilot.\n\u201cThis helps you get going,\u201d Microsoft wrote in a blog post, \u201coffering both a handy guide to Copilot\u2019s useful features and conversation starters.\u201d\nPersonalization in Copilot, which can be switched off in the Copilot settings menu on Windows, isn\u2019t slated for the U.K. or EU anytime soon. But users elsewhere should begin to see the setting this afternoon.\nMicrosoft and the EU have had a testy relationship where it concerns the company\u2019s AI product rollouts. In May, the EU warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc\u2019s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act, after the company failed to respond to a request for information that focused on its generative AI tools.\nA number of tech giants beyond Microsoft, including Apple and Meta, have taken a cautious approach to launching AI tools in the EU, wary of running afoul of the bloc\u2019s laws governing data privacy and model deployment.\n\u201cFor users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and a limited number of other countries, we are evaluating options before offering this level of Copilot personalization for those users,\u201d a Microsoft spokesperson told TechCrunch. \u201cSome features will not be available in the EEA until a later date.\u201d\n\ntitle3:\nAnthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma\ndescription3:\nDurk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he\u2019ll be joining Anthropic.\nIn a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he\u2019ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands (where he\u2019s based), but didn\u2019t say which Anthropic org he\u2019ll be joining \u2014 or leading.\nReached for comment, an Anthropic spokesperson pointed to Kingma\u2019s posts.\nI'll be working (mostly) from the Netherlands, but will visit the SF bay area as frequently as I can! \u2014 Durk Kingma (@dpkingma) October 1, 2024\n\u201cAnthropic\u2019s approach to AI development resonates significantly with my own beliefs,\u201d Kingma wrote. \u201c[L]ooking forward to contributing to Anthropic\u2019s mission of developing powerful AI systems responsibly. Can\u2019t wait to work with their talented team, including a number of great ex-colleagues from OpenAI and Google, and tackle the challenges ahead!\u201d\nKingma, who has a Ph.D. in machine learning from the University of Amsterdam, spent several years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI\u2019s founding team as a research scientist. At OpenAI, Kingma focused on basic research, leading the algorithms team to develop techniques and methods primarily for generative AI models, including image generators (e.g. DALL-E 3) and large language models (e.g. ChatGPT).\nIn 2018, Kingma left to become a part-time angel investor and advisor for AI startups. He rejoined Google in July of that year, and started at Google Brain, which became one of the tech giant\u2019s premiere AI R&D labs before it merged with DeepMind in 2023.\nKingma\u2019s hiring is yet another talent coup for Anthropic, which recruited OpenAI\u2019s former safety lead, Jan Leike, in May, and another OpenAI co-founder, John Schulman, in August. The company made an additional splashy hire in May, appointing Instagram and Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger as its first head of product.\nAnthropic\u2019s CEO, Dario Amodei, was once the VP of research at OpenAI, and reportedly split with the firm after a disagreement over OpenAI\u2019s roadmap \u2014 namely its growing commercial focus. Amodei brought with him a number of ex-OpenAI employees to launch Anthropic, including OpenAI\u2019s former policy lead Jack Clark.\nAnthropic has often attempted to position itself as more safety-focused than OpenAI.\n\ntitle4:\nA comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs\ndescription4:\nFrom major layoffs at Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft to small fintech startups and apps\nThe tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether.\nBy tracking these layoffs, we\u2019re able to understand the impact on innovation across companies large and small. We\u2019re also able to see the potential impact of businesses embracing AI and automation for jobs that had previously been considered safe. It also serves as a reminder of the human impact of layoffs and what could be at stake in regards to increased innovation.\nBelow you\u2019ll find a comprehensive list of all the known layoffs in tech that have occurred in 2024, to be updated regularly. If you have a tip on a layoff, contact us here. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can contact us here.\nSeptember 2024\nShein\nHas cut 17 employees in Singapore as the company prepares for an IPO at the London Stock Exchange.\nDrata\nThe security compliance platform has laid off 9% of its workforce, impacting 40 employees.\nMoov\nReportedly laid off upwards of 50 employees, though Moov itself has not yet confirmed the layoffs.\nFreightWaves\nEliminated 16 jobs in sales, HR, and marketing, citing a significant downturn in the freight market.\nNorthvolt\nIs cutting 25% of its global workforce in an effort to cut costs. The layoffs impact upwards of 1,600 employees at the battery giant.\nOlo\nIs reducing its workforce by 9%, impacting roughly 50 employees, as it aims to fund future growth initiatives.\nHealthy.io\nCut 40 employees across its markets in the U.S., the UK, and Israel. The cuts come after the Israeli healthtech firm laid off 70 employees in 2023.\nReverb\nReportedly eliminated 40 roles. The Chicago-based music gear marketplace was acquired by Etsy in 2019.\nLuminar\nIs reducing its staff by 30% as part of a new cost-cutting measure, CEO Austin Russell announced in a blog post. The cuts are largely made up of \u201cnon-technical\u201d roles.\nNotable Labs\nIs eliminating 65% of its workforce and consultants and pausing a clinical trial of its cancer treatment as it aims to minimize expenses.\nCrawTrawler\nIs cutting 10% of its workforce, impacting roughly 40 employees. The company, however, said it will create 28 new roles as part of its new strategy.\nApplyBoard\nHas eliminated 4% of its total workforce as it restructures its operations in Ontario.\nQualcomm\nWill lay off 226 workers in San Diego later this year, according to a California WARN notice. The decision comes less than a year after the chipmaker let go of more than 1,250 workers.\nUdemy\nWill reduce its headcount in a new restructuring effort, impacting roughly 280 employees. The company says that half of those affected by the cuts would be rehired, particularly if they work in lower cost markets.\nAmperity\nWill lay off 13% of its workforce. The company previously laid off 20 employees earlier this year, in addition to two other workforce reductions in 2023.\nCisco\nIs reducing its headcount by 7%, impacting around 5,600 employees. The cuts follow another layoff round from the company this year, in which 4,000 employees were impacted.\nMicrosoft\nIs laying off around 650 employees in its gaming division. The layoffs come eight months after the gaming division faced 1,900 job cuts after Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard.\nNori\nHas shut down its operations citing a \u201ctough funding environment,\u201d co-founder Alexsandra Guerra announced on LinkedIn.\nBending Spoons\nWill lay off 75% of WeTransfer\u2019s staff. Bending Spoons acquired the file transfer service in July for an undisclosed amount.\nGoop\nIs laying off 18% of its 216-person staff as the company shifts its focus to its beauty and food brands and deprioritize other areas like wellness and travel.\nFly.io\nHas reportedly laid off around 40 employees in what appears to be a restructuring effort for the company.\nMotif FoodWorks\nIs reportedly shutting down its operations following a lengthy litigation battle with competitor Impossible Foods.\nAugust 2024\nCharacter.AI\nReportedly cut at least 5% of its staff in its marketing and recruiting departments.\nApple\nIs reportedly cutting around 100 jobs in its digital services group, potentially impacting workers in the company\u2019s Books and News teams.\nBrave\nHas laid off 27 employees across the different departments, TechCrunch has learned. The cuts impact roughly 14% of the web browser and search startup\u2019s total staff.\nScale AI\nReportedly terminated more than 1,000 remote contract workers. The company did not categorize the cuts as layoffs and says full-time employees have not been impacted.\nSkip the Dishes\nIs cutting 100 workers in Canada and 700 working for its parent company, Just Eat Takeaway.com, CEO Paul Burns announced on LinkedIn.\nGoPro\nWill reduce its total workforce by about 15% before the end of the year as part of a major restructuring effort. The cuts will impact around 139 workers.\nRetention.com\nLaid off 40% of its staff, CEO Adam Robinson wrote on LinkedIn, impacting 15 employees.\nLoop\nIs conducting layoffs as the company goes through a \u201cstrategic shift\u201d in priorities. The number of employees affected is currently unknown.\nInuitive\nIs cutting 20% of its workforce, affecting around 80 employees. Inuitive CEO Shlomo Gadot is also stepping down from the company.\nFormlabs\nHas laid off a \u201csmall number\u201d of employees, the company exclusively confirmed to TechCrunch. The 3D printing firm says the cuts occurred over the past two years and impact 40 employees out of its less than 750-person staff.\nSonos\nCEO Patrick Spence confirmed with TechCrunch the company cut 100 employees in a new layoff round, impacting 6% of Sonos\u2019 workforce. Sonos previously reduced its headcount by 7% in 2023.\nCisco\nWill reportedly eliminate thousands of jobs in another round of layoffs this year. The company previously laid off more than 4,000 employees in February 2024.\nTally\nHas shut down its operations \u201cafter exploring all options\u201d before running out of cash. The fintech previously helped users manage and pay off their credit card debt; it had 183 employees and was last valued at $855 million.\nBranch.io\nHas laid off more than 100 employees. Nova Launcher, which was acquired by Branch in 2022, said the cuts whittled down its team to one full-time developer.\nREADY Robotics\nHas reportedly stopped its operations. The company is now auctioning off equipment through the Silicon Valley Disposition.\nEventbrite\nIs cutting around 100 employees, accounting for 11% of its total workforce. The online ticketing company previously let go of 8% of its employees in February 2023.\nLegalZoom\nAnnounced it will reduce its global workforce by 15% and pause future hiring efforts in an effort to save $25 million.\nTechstars\nIs laying off 17% of its staff and ending its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed programs at the end of this year following a rocky period for the company that has included financial losses and leadership shakeups.\nMobius\nWill completely shut down operations after facing financial struggles. The Kenya-based SUV manufacturer reportedly cited tax hikes as a driving force of the decision.\nInfineon\nWill cut 1,400 jobs globally, including hundreds of roles at its German plant. The company said it will also relocate an additional 1,400 employees to countries with lower labor costs.\nJam City\nHas eliminated around 85 employees, affecting 10% of the video game developer and publisher\u2019s total workforce.\nDell\nWill conduct layoffs as the company plans to get \u201cleaner,\u201d according to an internal memo, and create a new sales unit focused on AI products and services. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown.\nIntel\nIntel kicked off the month with substantial layoffs, with 15,000 employees accounting for 15% of its total staff affected by the company\u2019s cutbacks. \u201cOur revenues have not grown as expected \u2014 and we\u2019ve yet to fully benefit from powerful trends, like AI,\u201d CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a memo announcing the layoffs.\nJuly 2024\nRad Power Bikes\nThe e-bike startup that has raised more than $300 million from investors has also conducted five rounds of layoffs since April 2021, with TechCrunch exclusively learning that Red Power\u2019s most recent layoffs were conducted in July with an unknown number of Rad Power\u2019s roughly 394 employees impacted.\nMatch Group\nHas discontinued livestreaming services across its dating apps, specifically Plenty of Fish and BLK, as it shifts its focus to generative AI. The move will result in a 6% reduction in its total workforce.\nBungie\nWill cut 220 employees, representing around 17% of the game studio\u2019s total workforce. CEO Pete Parsons said the changes impact all levels of the company, including senior and executive leadership.\nPocket FM\nHas reportedly eliminated roles for nearly 200 U.S. writers a month after the company partnered with ElevenLabs to quickly convert scripts into audio content using AI.\nWayCool Foods\nHas reportedly laid off more than 200 employees across several departments. It would be the agritech company\u2019s third substantial layoff round in the past year.\nWebflow\nAnnounced it will eliminate roughly 8% of its workforce as the company works toward its \u201cnext phase of growth.\u201d\nCohere\nIs reportedly laying off about 20 employees, accounting for nearly 5% of its total workforce. The cuts came the day after the company announced it raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation.\nMagic Leap\nReportedly eliminated around 75 of its workers. As part of the cuts, the augmented reality startup reportedly axed its sales and marketing departments entirely.\nMercari\nIs reportedly laying off nearly half of its employees in the U.S. as the Japan-based company struggles to compete with other e-commerce rivals like Temu.\nAqua\nIs eliminating 50 employees, accounting for 10% of its total workforce. Earlier this year, the cybersecurity company raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation, making it a unicorn.\nEverC\nIs reportedly laying off 10% of its 165-person workforce. The company develops cyber intelligence software that helps prevent online fraud.\nLex\nHas laid off the majority of its roughly eight-person staff as the LGBTQ+ social networking site struggles to monetize its product. Last year, the company\u2019s third, Lex raised $5.6 million in seed funding and elevated co-founder Jennifer Lewis from COO to CEO.\nMonarch Tractor\nCut \u201cless than\u201d 15% of its 250- to 300-person workforce as part of a necessary reshuffling following a $133 million Series C funding round, TechCrunch has learned.\nKaspersky\nWill lay off dozens of employees and leave the U.S. market completely following a U.S. government order that banned the sale of the company\u2019s software due to security risks.\nSalesforce\nEliminated about 300 employees in its workforce as it rolls out a broader effort to cut costs and streamline its operations.\nIntuit\nWill cut 1,800 employees, impacting 10% of its workforce. The company says more than half were cut due to low performance and aims to hire approximately the same number of employees instead of cutting costs.\nUiPath\nPlans to cut 420 jobs, 10% of its total workforce, as the company undergoes a large restructuring effort.\nUKG\nCut an estimated 2,200 employees, amounting to nearly 14% of its workforce, as the software company attempts to redirect its resources into \u201ckey areas of product innovation.\u201d\nOpenText\u200b\u200b\nPlans to cut roughly 1,200 jobs, amounting to almost 2% of its total workforce, as the information management company plans to significantly reduce its expenses by 2025.\nUnacademy\nIs laying off about 250 employees in the latest in a series of job cuts after schools reopened across India following pandemic lockdowns.\nKoo\nIs ceasing its operations after its last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed.\nUpside Foods\nHas cut its workforce by 26 people, CEO Uma Valeti wrote in an email to staff, as the lab-grown meat industry sees a decline in VC funding.\nSightful\nIs eliminating 20 employees, amounting to a third of its total workforce, as the company shifts its focus to software development.\nJune 2024\nRealPage\nWill cut approximately 4% of its workforce as part of a plan to boost growth, though the company is also one of many within its field facing a consolidated lawsuit alleging they engaged in price fixing.\nPlanet\nIntends to lay off roughly 180 employees, amounting to 17% of its workforce, according to an SEC filing that amounts to its second recent round of layoffs.\nMoxion Power\nIs laying off more than 100 employees, according to a WARN filing. The news of the cuts comes after the company launched a large office expansion in Richmond, California.\neBay\nIs reportedly conducting layoffs in Israel as it goes through a global restructuring.\nBeReal\nIs reportedly cutting a large number of its staff after being acquired by French gaming company Voodoo.\nFlutterwave\nHas laid off about 30 people, accounting for 3% of its workforce, as it refocuses its business to enterprise.\nGinkgo Bioworks\nTerminated 158 employees, with another batch of layoffs expected to come as the company aims to reduce its workforce by 25%.\nMoovit\nIs making cuts to 10% of its workforce, impacting around 20 to 25 employees.\nWex\nIs laying off 375 employees, accounting for 5% of its total workforce.\nPayPal\nWill eliminate up to 85 employees based in Ireland, the company announced.\nRapyd\nIs reportedly laying off around 30 employees in Israel and will move positions to other regions to cut costs.\nC2FO\nCut 16 employees in its supplier resource management department as it focuses on automation.\nChegg\nIs reducing its global headcount by 23% in a major restructuring effort as the online learning platform aims to become a \u201cleaner\u201d operation.\nStackPath\nIs closing up shop and liquidating its assets. The number of employees affected is currently unknown.\nUnit\nIs reducing its headcount by 15% as the company attempts to \u201cthink in longer time frames,\u201d the company announced in a blog post.\nLoop\nIs making more cuts, co-CEO Carey Anne Nadeau announced on LinkedIn. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown.\nCare/of\nWill lay off its 143 employees by July 3 due to a \u201cfunding loss,\u201d and will no longer be accepting new orders. The company has not shut down fully though, telling TechCrunch: \u201cWe are actively exploring options for the brand but do not have anything definitive to communicate at this time.\u201d\nRunning Tide\nShut down its operations and laid off its remaining employees after raising more than $50 million since its 2017 start.\nSatellogic\nIs laying off 70 employees, about 30% of its workforce, three weeks after an earlier round of cuts impacted 34 employees.\nByteDance\nIs slashing around 450 jobs at its Indonesian e-commerce division, accounting for 9% of the unit.\nVRChat\nHas eliminated around 30% of its total workforce, CEO Graham Gaylor confirmed in a statement.\nPaytm\nIs reportedly conducting large cuts across the company. The total number of employees impacted is currently unknown.\nKissflow\nHas cut around 45 jobs as part of a restructuring effort.\nCopia Global\nHas laid off at least 1,060 employees two weeks after the startup filed for administration.\nRevel\nIs laying off its 1,000+ staff drivers as it embraces a gig worker model similar to that of Lyft and Uber.\nSimpl\nHas cut 30 employees a month after the Bengaluru-based startup laid off 160 people.\nOda\nHas confirmed layoffs of 150 jobs as it drastically scales back its expansion ambitions to focus on its markets in Norway and Sweden.\nPagaya\nIs laying off 100 workers, or 20% of its staff, in another round of cuts.\nMoonPay\nIs reportedly laying off 10% of its workforce, amounting to around 30 people.\nMicrosoft\nIs reportedly cutting hundreds of employees working in its Azure cloud business, though the exact number of employees impacted is currently unknown.\nOrCam\nIs laying off 100 employees months after reducing its headcount by 50 workers.\nGoogle\nIs reportedly making large cuts globally across several of its Cloud teams, including teams focused on sustainability, consulting and partner engineering.\nTropic\nIs eliminating 40 employees as part of a restructuring effort, CEO David Campbell wrote in a post on LinkedIn.\nMay 2024\nGro Intelligence\nIs shutting down its operations after laying off 60% of its staff in March in an attempt to stay afloat.\nJasper Health\nHas laid off a substantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch learned. Engineering and product design departments were most impacted by the cuts at the cancer care platform startup.\nCirium\nIs laying off 37 tech workers at FlightStats, the flight tracking startup it acquired in 2016, as it plans to consolidate its operations in India and the U.K.\nWalnut\nIs cutting 15 employees in a round of layoffs, impacting 20% of the Israeli startup\u2019s total workforce.\nFisker\nHas laid off hundreds of employees in a bid to keep the EV startup alive. One current and one laid off employee told TechCrunch exclusively that an estimated 150 people remain at the company.\nCue Health\nIs shutting down its operations and laying off the rest of its staff. The COVID-19 test company laid off half of its workforce earlier this month to cut costs.\nFoursquare\nHas let go of 105 employees as the company seeks to \u201cstreamline\u201d its operations, according to an email to staffers from current CEO Gary Little.\nLucid Motors\nIs laying off about 400 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring ahead of the launch of its first electric SUV later this year.\nTikTok\nWill reportedly make large cuts to its global operations and marketing teams. The amount of employees impacted is currently unknown.\nPixar\nWill reportedly cut 14% of its staff, impacting 175 employees, as the company shifts its focus from original Disney+ programming back to films.\nReplit\nLet go of 20% of its staff as the coding startup shifts its focus to enterprise sales.\nSeekOut\nCut about 30% of its total workforce. The recruiting startup that uses AI to find candidates was last valued at over $1.2 billion in January 2022.\nGopuff\nEliminated 6% of its staff in another round of layoffs as the fast-delivery startup attempts to become cash-flow positive by the end of 2024.\nAtmosphere\nPlans to lay off 106 employees, according to a WARN notice filed in Texas.\nMainvest\nHas shut down its operations. The number of employees affected is currently unknown.\nIndeed\nIs cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, impacting 8% of the company\u2019s headcount, CEO Chris Hyams wrote in a letter to staff.\nMotional\nCut around 40% of its workforce, impacting about 550 employees, sources told TechCrunch. The company\u2019s chief operating officer, Abe Ghabra, has also left the company.\nGoogle\nWill eliminate 57 positions in San Francisco, according to a WARN notice filed in California.\nVacasa\nIs eliminating 800 employees, accounting for 13% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring effort.\nBrilliant\nTold The Verge it has laid off most of its staff and is no longer selling its smart home controllers and light switches as it looks for a buyer.\nEnovix\nLaid off roughly 170 workers, impacting a third of its total headcount, in an effort to cut back on annual operating costs.\nMicrosoft\nClosed Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and more game studios as part of cuts at Bethesda. It\u2019s currently unclear how many employees will be impacted.\nCue Health\nIs eliminating 230 employees, about 49% of its workforce, in a cost cutting measure laid out in documents filed with the U.S. SEC.\nLuminar\nIs slashing its workforce by 20%. The cuts will affect around 140 employees, and the company is also cutting ties with \u201cthe majority\u201d of its contract workers.\nSprinklr\nHas laid off about 3% of its workforce, impacting 116 people, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. The cuts come over a year after the company eliminated about 4% of its headcount.\nPeloton\nIs laying off 15% of its workforce, affecting about 400 people, as part of a cost-cutting effort. The company\u2019s CEO Barry McCarthy is also stepping down.\nApril 2024\nTesla\nHas gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, CEO Elon Musk announced in an overnight email to executives.\nGoogle\nHas laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart and Python. It is currently unclear how many employees were let go.\nFisker\nIs laying off more employees to \u201cpreserve cash,\u201d according to an internal email viewed by TechCrunch. The number of cuts is currently unknown.\nGetir\nIs shutting down operations in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe, impacting at least 6,000 jobs across the closing markets.\nOla\nIs cutting about 180 jobs in a profitability push and has let go its chief executive Hemant Bakshi, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.\nTrue Anomaly\nThe space and defense startup laid off nearly 30 people, accounting for about 25% of its workforce, due to \u201cduplication of roles and functions across the company,\u201d TechCrunch exclusively reported.\nExpedia\nIs expected to cut employees in its Austin office for the second time this year.\nNike\nPlans to eliminate 740 employees at its Oregon headquarters this summer, according to a WARN Act notice.\nStability AI\nIs eliminating 10% of its workforce following the exit of former CEO Emad Mostaque.\nGoogle\nIs laying off workers as part of continued cost cutting measures. The number of employees affected was at the time unknown.\nRivian\nIs reducing its total workforce by 1%. It\u2019s the second round of layoffs for the EV maker this year.\nTake-Two\nIs laying off 5% of its workforce, affecting around 579 employees. The GTA 6 publisher also announced the elimination of \u201cseveral projects\u201d in development.\nTome\nIs eliminating about 20% of its 59 employees in a restructuring effort.\nTesla\nIs cutting \u201cmore than 10%\u201d of its global workforce, per an internal email sent by CEO Elon Musk. That could impact more than 14,000 workers worldwide, as Tesla prepares itself \u201cfor our next phase of growth\u201d amid a challenging EV market.\nCriteo\nIs reducing its global workforce by nearly 4%, impacting up to 140 employees.\nTikTok\nIs laying off 250 employees based in Ireland as it restructures its Training and Quality team.\nHinge Health\nCut approximately 10% of its workforce, TechCrunch exclusively learned, as the company prepares for an IPO and aims to reach profitability.\nCheckr\nHas laid off 382 employees, amounting to 32% of its total workforce, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The background-screening platform was last valued at $5 billion in April of 2022.\nBolt.Earth\nReportedly laid off a sizable part of its staff in a restructuring effort. The number of employees impacted is currently unknown, but sources told Inc42 that it could be \u201cin the range of 70-100\u201d workers.\nApple\nIs laying off 614 employees in California after abandoning its electric car project, according to a WARN notice.\nAgility Robotics\nHas laid off a \u201csmall number\u201d of employees as part of a company-wide focus on commercialization efforts.\nGhost Autonomy\nShut down operations. The company, which was backed by OpenAI, employed about 100 people.\nWhirlpool\nIs shutting down Yummly, the recipe and cooking app it acquired in 2017.\nAWS\nWill cut hundreds of jobs across Sales, Marketing, Global Services and its Physical Stores Technology team.\nByju\u2019s\nIs laying off about 500 employees, accounting for 3% of its total workforce, as part of a restructuring effort.\nMarch 2024\nReliance\nReliance, largest conglomerate in India, took its time in announcing it had laid off more than 42,000 people in its fiscal year, which ended in March. That significant number accounted for 11% of its workforce, and another 143,000 employees took \u201cvoluntary separations\u201d in the same time.\nChowNow\nHas laid off 20% of its staff after acquiring point-of-sale platform Cuboh. The company previously laid off 100 people in 2022.\nNintendo of America\nIs restructuring its testing department, which is largely made up of contractors. A Nintendo spokesperson told Kotaku the changes will end some assignments but will lead to the creation of new full-time positions.\nDell\nCut its global workforce by about 6,000 jobs, according to a 10-K SEC filing. The filing reveals the company cut 13,000 jobs in the last year.\nSynctera\nHas made cuts to its staff, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. A report in Fintech Business Weekly estimates that 17 people, or about 15% of the company, were impacted.\nShopBack\nIs cutting 195 roles in an effort to become more sustainable, CEO Henry Chan wrote in a blog post. The layoffs impact nearly a quarter of its staff.\nAirmeet\nReportedly eliminated 20% of its total workforce in its second restructuring effort in the past year.\nChipper Cash\nConducted another round of layoffs impacting 20 employees, CEO Ham Serunjogi announced in a blog post.\nTextio\nHas reportedly cut 16% of its staff in a strategic move to support its Textio Lift product.\nStash\nIs reportedly laying off around 25% of its workforce. According to Axios, the cuts affect roughly 80 people.\nPhantom Auto\nIs shutting down after failing to secure new funding, TechCrunch has learned. The remote driving startup, which had cut staff last year, employed a little more than 100 people.\nIBM\nIs reportedly slashing its marketing and communications staff. The company previously announced a strategy to replace upwards of 8,000 jobs with AI.\nInscribe.ai\nCut just under 40% of its staff, equating to dozens of employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.\nTurnitin\nLaid off around 15 people earlier this year, following comments from CEO Chris Caren that the company would be able to reduce 20% of its headcount thanks to AI.\nSorare\nLaid off 13% of its staff based in its New York office as the web3 fantasy sports platform focuses on its Paris headquarters, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.\nMelio\nIs eliminating roughly 7% of its workforce as part of organizational restructuring. The fintech unicorn last conducted layoffs in August 2022.\nONE\nIs cutting about 13% of its workforce, affecting 40 employees. It\u2019s the second round of layoffs for the battery startup in recent months.\nProject Ronin\nIs shutting down, resulting in a \u201cpermanent mass layoff\u201d impacting around 150 employees.\nFebruary 2024\nFisker\nPlans to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash on hand to survive the next 12 months.\nEA\nCut 5% of its workforce, impacting 670 employees, as it moves away from the \u201cdevelopment of future licensed IP.\u201d\nBumble\nIs letting go of about 350 employees, accounting for 30% of its workforce.\nApple\nIs likely cutting hundreds of employees who worked on the company\u2019s autonomous electric car project now that the effort has stopped, TechCrunch has learned.\nSony\nIs laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit, affecting 8% of the division\u2019s workforce. Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla and Firesprite studios will also be impacted.\nExpedia\nWill reportedly cut 1,500 roles in 2024, primarily in its Product & Technology division, accounting for more than 8% of the company\u2019s workforce.\nFinder\nEliminated roughly 60 employees, or 17% of its workforce. It\u2019s the financial startup\u2019s third major layoff round in the past 12 months.\nRivian\nIs laying off 10% of its salaried workforce in a bid to cut costs in an increasingly tough market for EVs.\nMeati Foods\nWill lay off 13% of its workforce as it works to \u201cbuild a financially sustainable business,\u201d CEO Phil Graves told TechCrunch exclusively.\nCisco\nAnnounced it will eliminate 5% of its employees, impacting more than 4,000 people.\nToast\nWill lay off about 550 workers in a move designed to promote \u201coperating expense efficiency.\u201d\nInstacart\nAnnounced in an SEC filing that it will lay off roughly 250 employees as part of a restructuring effort.\nMozilla\nIs scaling back its investment in a number of products, TechCrunch has learned, resulting in layoffs that will affect roughly 60 employees.\nGrammarly\nIs laying off 230 employees worldwide as part of the company\u2019s efforts to advance its focus on \u201cthe AI-enabled workplace of the future.\u201d\nGetaround\nIs cutting 30% of its North American workforce as part of a restructuring.\nAmazon\nIs reportedly cutting jobs in its healthcare businesses One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy. The number of impacted roles is currently unknown.\nDocuSign\nAnnounced plans to eliminate 6% of its workforce, largely impacting the company\u2019s sales and marketing divisions.\nSnap\nAnnounced plans to cut 10% of its workforce, impacting roughly 500-plus employees, in an effort to \u201creduce hierarchy.\u201d\nPolygon Labs\nHas laid off 60 employees, or about 19% of its staff, CEO Marc Boiron announced in a blog post.\nOkta\nIs laying off approximately 400 employees. The layoffs come almost exactly a year to the day after Okta announced plans to cut about 300 employees.\nJanuary 2024\nThinx\nWill lay off 95 workers in New York City, according to a filing with the New York Department of Labor.\nProofpoint\nIs laying off about 6% of its global workforce, or 280 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.\nWattpad\nConducted another round of layoffs earlier this month, amounting to roughly 15% of its workforce, a source familiar with the situation told TechCrunch.\nBlock\nIs reportedly laying off around 1,000 people in the Cash App, foundational and Square arms of Block.\nPayPal\nHas reportedly begun company-wide layoffs. While it is unclear how many people will be affected, one source told TechCrunch it was expected to be in the \u201cthousands.\u201d\nAurora Solar\nHas laid off 20% of its staff of about 1,000 people, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The cuts to the software startup come despite record growth in the solar industry last year.\niRobot\nIs laying off 350 people, or one-third of its headcount, after Amazon\u2019s bid to acquire the Roomba-maker shuttered. Longtime CEO Colin Angle has also stepped down.\nSalesforce\nIs reportedly laying off 700 workers, or around 1% of its staff. This comes after the company had a significant reduction of 10% of its workforce in 2023.\nFlexport\nIs reportedly planning to cut around 20% of its staff in the next few weeks. The company announced similar cuts in October, when founder Ryan Petersen returned as CEO and slashed its workforce by 20%.\nMicrosoft\nIs laying off 1,900 employees across its gaming divisions following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra announced he will also be stepping down.\nSwiggy\nIs cutting about 400 jobs, 7% of its workforce, as the food delivery startup seeks to bring further improvements to its finances ahead of a planned IPO later this year.\nAurora\nLaid off dozens of workers, according to sources familiar with the decision. The autonomous vehicle technology company has since confirmed that about 3% of its workforce has been laid off.\neBay\nWill lay off 9% of the company\u2019s workforce, affecting about 1,000 full-time employees. In a blog post, the company also plans to cut contract roles in the coming months.\nSAP\nAnnounced it intends to offer voluntary buyouts or job changes to 8,000 employees amid restructuring.\nBrex\nLaid off 20% of its staff, affecting 282 workers. In a blog post, Co-CEO Pedro Franceschi said that the company is prioritizing \u201clong-term thinking and ownership over short-term gains in our comp structure.\u201d\nTikTok\nEliminated around 60 jobs across the U.S. in Los Angeles, New York, and Austin in addition to layoffs in international markets. The affected roles, according to NPR\u2019s initial reporting, are largely in sales and advertising.\nVroom\nIs cutting 90% of its employees as it shuts down its online used car marketplace and shifts resources into two business units: one focused on auto financing and the other on AI-powered analytics.\nRiot Games\nIs laying off 11% of its workforce, affecting about 530 employees, as the company focuses on \u201cfewer, high-impact projects.\u201d The League of Legends maker is also sunsetting its five-year-old publishing group, Riot Forge.\nWayfair\nIs eliminating 13% of its global workforce, affecting 1,650 employees, in a restructuring effort aimed at cutting layers of management.\nYouTube\nWill eliminate 100 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch, as part of a restructuring effort in its creator management and operations teams.\nGoogle\nIs laying off \u201chundreds\u201d of employees in its advertising sales team, according to a leaked memo. The cuts come a week after the company did sweeping layoffs across its hardware teams. And more layoffs will come throughout the year, as CEO Sundar Pichai told the company in a memo obtained by the Verge.\nLost Boys Interactive\nReportedly laid off a \u201csizable\u201d number of employees January 12. The game developer studio was acquired by Borderlands maker Gearbox in 2022.\nPixar\nIs going to lay off employees in 2024, TechCrunch exclusively learned, with the total impacted employees potentially reaching as high as 20% of the animation studio\u2019s 1,300 person workforce. The cutbacks come as Disney looks to reduce the studio\u2019s output as it struggles to achieve profitability in streaming.\nAudible\nIs laying off 5% of its workforce, citing an \u201cincreasingly challenging landscape,\u201d according to a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider.\nDiscord\nIs laying off 17% of its staff, impacting 170 people. In an internal memo obtained by the Verge, Discord CEO Jason Citron blamed the cuts on the company growing too quickly.\nGoogle\nLaid off hundreds of employees across its Google Assistant division and the team that manages Pixel, Nest and Fitbit hardware. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are also exiting.\nAmazon\nIs laying off \u201cseveral hundreds\u201d of employees at Prime Video and MGM Studios, according to a memo obtained by TechCrunch. The cuts come days after the 500 layoffs at Amazon\u2019s Twitch.\nTwitch\nIs reportedly laying off 500 employees, 35% of its current staff, amid a continued struggle to achieve profitability in the face of rising costs and community backlash. The pending layoffs come after hundreds more employees were laid off in 2023.\nTreasure Financial\nConfirmed to TechCunch that layoffs, conducted in December, had impacted 14 employees, accounting for 60% to 70% of the company, according to multiple sources.\nDuolingo\nConfirmed it cut 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023 as it turns to AI to streamline content production and translations previously handled by humans.\nRent the Runway\nWill cut about 10% of corporate roles as it goes through a restructuring plan following Anushka Salinas\u2019 planned resignation as operating chief and president at the end of January.\nUnity\nIs reducing its workforce by about 25%, or 1,800 people. The video game engine maker went through three rounds of layoffs in 2023.\nPitch\nLaid off two-thirds of its employees as the German startup, which built collaborative presentation software, looks to pursue a \u201ccompletely different path.\u201d CEO and co-founder Christian Reber also stepped down.\nBenchSci\nThe AI and biomedical startup reportedly cut 17% of its workforce January 8, citing \u201cshifts in the economic environment,\u201d in a LinkedIn post announcing the layoffs.\nFlexe\nEliminated 38% of its staff January 8 as the online retail logistics company follows up after conducting layoffs in September 2023.\nNuScale\nAnnounced January 8 it is laying off 28% of its staff, or 154 workers, as the small modular nuclear reactor company shifts its focus to \u201ckey strategic areas.\u201d\nTrigo\nIs reportedly laying off 15% of its workforce focused on computer vision for retailers.\nInVision\nIs shutting down at the end of 2024 after a 12 year run. The design collaboration startup was once valued at nearly $2B.\nVideoAmp\nIs laying off nearly 20% of its workforce as it tries to maintain its battle with Nielsen over media measurement. CEO Ross McCray stepped down from the company.\nOrca Security\nIs laying off roughly 15% of its staff, totaling 60 employees. The Israel-based unicorn reportedly plans to move some impacted employees into other positions at the company.\nFrontdesk\nLaid off its entire 200-person workforce January 2 after attempts to raise more capital failed, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The mass layoff comes just seven months after the startup acquired rival Zencity.\"\n\nResponse:", + "Script": "i'm wall-e, and this is your ai briefing for wednesday, october 2nd.\n\ntesla is gearing up to report its third-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers today, and it comes at a pivotal time. elon musk's automaker is expected to announce around 463,310 deliveries, according to factset streetaccount. this estimate includes about 435,900 of model 3 sedans and model y suvs. if tesla meets these expectations, it would signify a 6.5% increase year-over-year, driven largely by sales in mainland china. despite this positive forecast, the company still faces challenges, such as brand erosion associated with musk's recent controversial political statements and its ongoing efforts to introduce a fully autonomous robotaxi.\n\nin other news, microsoft's significant investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing continue to grow. ceo satya nadella recently announced that the company's commitments to finance leases for ai data centers have shot up to $108.4 billion, nearly $100 billion higher than two years ago. this financial maneuver allows microsoft to spread the cost of these data centers over several years. investors will be keeping a close watch as microsoft prepares for its quarterly earnings report later this month, seeking clarity on these substantial capital expenditures.\n\nspeaking of ai, microsoft has launched new features for its copilot ai suite, adding capabilities that allow the ai to understand, read, and speak aloud to users. new updates, such as copilot vision, think deeper, and copilot voice, aim to enhance user experience by allowing more natural and interactive engagement. copilot vision can now analyze text and images on web pages viewed through microsoft edge, while think deeper and copilot voice bring advanced reasoning and voice interaction capabilities to the suite. while these advancements are promising, microsoft is taking a cautious approach to privacy, especially in light of past controversies.\n\nin the talent acquisition front, anthropic has made a major hire by bringing on durk kingma, one of the co-founders of openai. kingma will primarily work from the netherlands and joins anthropic in a significant coup for the ai startup. kingma\u2019s move is another indicator of the growing talent war in the ai sector, as anthropic aims to bolster its capabilities with experienced researchers amid intense industry competition.\n\nthe tech layoff wave continues unabated in 2024, with major companies like tesla, amazon, microsoft, and numerous smaller startups continuing to trim their workforces. with over 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies this year, the impact is being felt across all levels of the tech ecosystem. this trend underscores the sector's adjustment to market conditions and a strategic pivot towards automation and ai to optimize operations. these layoffs reflect broader shifts in the industry, with businesses embracing new technologies that may change the job landscape significantly in the near future.\n\nthat's all for today. we\u2019ll see you back here tomorrow", + "Polished Script": "i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for wednesday, october 2nd.\n\ntesla is gearing up to report its third-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers today. elon musk's automaker is expected to announce around 463,310 deliveries, according to factset streetaccount. this estimate includes about 435,900 model 3 sedans and model y suvs. if tesla meets these expectations, it would signify a 6.5% increase year-over-year, driven largely by sales in mainland china. despite this positive forecast, the company still faces challenges, including brand erosion associated with musk's recent controversial political statements and its ongoing efforts to introduce a fully autonomous robotaxi.\n\nin other news, microsoft's significant investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing continue to grow. ceo satya nadella recently revealed that the company's commitments to finance leases for ai data centers have shot up to $108.4 billion, nearly $100 billion higher than two years ago. this financial maneuver allows microsoft to spread the cost of these data centers over several years. investors will be keeping a close watch as microsoft prepares for its quarterly earnings report later this month for clarity on these substantial capital expenditures.\n\nspeaking of ai, microsoft has launched new features for its copilot ai suite, adding capabilities that allow the ai to understand, read, and speak aloud to users. new updates such as copilot vision, think deeper, and copilot voice aim to enhance user experience by allowing more natural and interactive engagement. copilot vision can now analyze text and images on web pages viewed through microsoft edge, while think deeper and copilot voice bring advanced reasoning and voice interaction capabilities to the suite. while these advancements are promising, microsoft is taking a cautious approach to privacy, especially in light of past controversies.\n\nin the talent acquisition front, anthropic has made a major hire by adding durk kingma, one of the co-founders of openai, to their team. kingma will primarily work from the netherlands and joins anthropic in a significant coup for the ai startup. kingma\u2019s move is another indicator of the growing talent war in the ai sector as anthropic aims to bolster its capabilities with experienced researchers amid intense industry competition.\n\nthe tech layoff wave continues unabated in 2024, with major companies like tesla, amazon, and microsoft, along with numerous smaller startups, continuing to trim their workforces. with over 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies this year, the impact is being felt across all levels of the tech ecosystem. this trend underscores the sector's adjustment to market conditions and a strategic pivot towards automation and ai to optimize operations. these layoffs reflect broader shifts in the industry, with businesses embracing new technologies that may significantly change the job landscape.\n\nthat's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow", + "Podcast Title": "EP-120 Tesla Q3 Delivery Surge \ud83d\udcc8, Microsoft's Ai Innovations \ud83d\udd0d, Tech Layoff Wave \ud83c\udf0a", + "Podcast Description": "

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for wednesday, october 2nd.

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that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow.

", + "Image Prompt": "a unified podcast cover image set against a sleek, modern cityscape at dusk, with skyscrapers reflecting a golden sunset. to the left, a line of tesla cars drives out of a gleaming showroom, symbolizing the delivery surge. in the middle ground, a futuristic ai hologram floats above a bustling streetscape, with neon lines and data symbols radiating from it, representing microsoft's ai innovations. on the right, a wave formed by binary code and digital graphics sweeps across the scene, signifying the tech layoff wave. these elements blend seamlessly, with a vivid color palette of deep blues, purples, and golds, creating a dynamic and cohesive image reflecting the vibrant interplay of automotive advancements, ai technology, and industry turbulence" +} \ No newline at end of file