Workday and Amazon's AI hiring tools are accused of discriminating against underrepresented job applicants based on characteristics like age, race, and disability, potentially perpetuating biases from training data and worsening discrimination patterns in employment.
Slack unveils an AI-powered enterprise search feature, centralizing knowledge across conversations, data, and third-party apps, providing personalized, permission-aware results and transforming scattered information into complete answers with context.
AI automation is slashing graduate hiring in accounting and finance as major firms like AIB deploy AI tools for routine tasks, raising fears from trade unions about potential job losses with around 30% of workers in roles vulnerable to AI replacement according to a government study.
Amid massive corporate AI investments, 77% of workers report increased workloads due to AI, with nearly half struggling to leverage its promised productivity gains, signaling urgent need for workforce training and change management strategies.
Recruit Holdings, parent of Indeed and Glassdoor, cuts 1,300 jobs or 6% of its HR tech workforce, mainly in the U.S., pivoting towards AI integration as the CEO cites AI's transformative impact requiring adaptation.
A former Meta AI researcher reveals a toxic culture of fear, dysfunction, and confusion plaguing the tech giant, likening it to metastatic cancer spreading unchecked, with unclear goals, frequent layoffs, and plummeting employee morale.
A vulnerability in McDonald's AI hiring chatbot McHire exposes personal data of 64 million job applicants before being swiftly fixed by the fast-food giant after researchers' notification.
McDonald's AI hiring tool leaks millions of applicants' personal data as hackers exploit security flaws to access names, emails, and phone numbers by guessing a simple password.
Microsoft cuts 9,000 jobs while AI tools save over $500 million in call center costs, signaling a major investment push into AI talent and infrastructure despite record profits.
Microsoft lays off over 3,000 employees in Washington state as it pivots focus to artificial intelligence, investing billions into AI infrastructure amid criticism of impersonal termination processes and an intense work culture.