Meta is offering advertisers sweeteners, including discounts of up to 25% for those spending a certain amount testing ad products on Reels. Workers vented about the docking of the bonus payments online, calling it “malicious,” with another saying they’d resign and look for a job at a Chinese rival like BYD.
Two of the plant’s employees told Reuters that management cited a “safety incident” when questioned about the reasons for the bonus reductions. Workers at Tesla’s Shanghai plant saw staff bonuses cut after an employee died in a mechanical accident in the plant’s welding workshop in early February. Tesla factory workers call out bonus pay cuts. But there’s clearly a degree of organizational inertia involved when employees are shocked at the suggestion of a key business partner reevaluating the competition.ĭata Sheet’s daily news section was written and curated by Andrea Guzman. is partially motivated by a desire to keep search reliable and safe. I can certainly understand what’s behind it-Google’s global market share has been at 90% or more since the late naughties-and I also appreciate that Google’s reluctance to go all in on generative A.I. Now we learn that Google was again blindsided by Samsung reportedly considering whether it really wanted to renew its $3-billion-a-year contract to keep Google Search as the default search engine on its mobile devices-or to instead switch to Microsoft’s A.I.-happy Bing, which was until recently more of a punch line than anything else.Īccording to the Times piece, Googlers “reacted with emojis and surprise” when asked to knock together a pitch that might persuade Samsung to stay on board, with one saying, “Wow, okay, that’s wild.” That right there is the definition of complacency. After ChatGPT’s seminal launch last year, it was reported that someone in Google management declared a “code red” owing to the implications for search rivalry-CEO Sundar Pichai subsequently said he wasn’t the one to deploy that phrase, but he didn’t deny it happened.
But for now, there’s another big takeaway to be found in there, regarding the sense of panic within Google over the speed at which the generative A.I. As ever, more details are promised soon-probably at next month’s Google I/O developer shindig, given the reported timing of the public starting to gain access to the revamped Google Search.
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