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ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch

Unprecedented take-up may make AI chatbot the fastest-growing consumer internet app ever, analysts say

The Guardian - US · Feb 2, 2023

Bosses spying on workers are breeding paranoia that makes them worse at their jobs and more likely to quit

"Productivity paranoia" is a self-fulfilling prophecy: Monitoring remote workers backfires, as they're more likely to slack off when being watched.

Fortune · Feb 2, 2023

Big Tech Layoffs Continue -- But Apple Looks the Strongest

All of Big Tech is rallying at the moment, and all have laid off employees. This article takes a look at why Apple might be the strongest player of the bunch.

StockNews.com · Feb 2, 2023

How Stockpickers Finally Beat the Index Funds

With less riding on slumping tech stocks such as Amazon, Tesla and Microsoft, many active fund managers finally surpassed their benchmarks in 2022.

Businessweek · Feb 2, 2023

Microsoft is removing dozens of Xbox 360 games from the Xbox store

Microsoft is delisting nearly 50 Xbox 360 games from the Xbox 360 store, though thanks to backwards compatibility, they aren’t all lost

USA Today Sports Media Group · Feb 1, 2023

Google has the next move as Microsoft embraces OpenAI buzz

Startup OpenAI released its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool into the wild late last year with great fanfare

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

The 25 best games on Game Pass for Xbox and PC

Discover your next obsession with the best Xbox Game Pass games, from Hi Fi Rush to Lies of P

GamesRadar · Feb 1, 2023

Running one of the World’s Most Admired Companies appears to be correlated with CEO longevity

Just ask Warren Buffett or Jamie Dimon.

Fortune · Feb 1, 2023

How ‘crunch’ time and low pay are fueling a union drive among video game workers

For months, Andrés Vásquez’s days working on the first-person shooter game “Doom” blended into one another.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 1, 2023

Brian Merchant: How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel

In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. Just a few days into 2023, Amazon Chief Executive Andrew Jassy announced that there would be 18,000 layoffs across the company. Within weeks, Microsoft revealed it was…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 1, 2023