Meta is to commence company-wide layoffs while expediting the hiring of machine learning engineers, the Facebook parent company told employees in internal memos seen by Reuters on Friday. The process is set to start today in most countries, including the U.S. According to one of the posts, authored by Meta’s head of people Janelle Gale,…

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has revealed that the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, suggested he use hallucinogenic drugs to help make Microsoft products more interesting. Gates said: “Steve Jobs once said that he wished I’d take acid because then maybe I would have had more taste in my design of my products.”…

Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to set aside the results of a union election in which the first group of employees voted in favor of collective bargaining. Whole Foods claims the union interfered by promising employees free transportation and a 30% wage increase if they unionized. The company…

Pam Bondi will become U.S. attorney general after the Senate approved her by a 54-46 vote. All Republican senators voted to confirm Bondi, while Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote in favor. Born in Tampa, Florida, Bondi studied criminal justice at the University of Florida and then received a degree from…

Citigroup is to continue to allow most employees to work remotely at least two days a week. Jane Fraser, the bank’s CEO, promised to continue the hybrid work schedule on a quarterly call with managing directors in mid-January, the FT has reported, citing people familiar with the matter. She believes Citi’s more flexible in-office work…

Starbucks and Workers United, the union representing workers at more than 500 company-owned outlets across the U.S., have decided to engage an outside mediator to restart stalled bargaining discussions. In a joint statement, the two sides said that they had made progress over the last nine months, and that they were “committed to continuing to…