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The CEO who leads one handwritten note at a time

At least once a year, Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler’s right hand cramps up from a few hours of writing. He’s not signing copies of a book.The pain, instead, comes from penning personalized notes to every member of the technology company’s 80-plus-person leadership team ahead of their annual retreat.”After every 10,…

Stock compensation gives Big Tech workers a powerful reason to stay. Layoffs and the AI boom are changing the equation.

The day after Rob Waters learned of his layoff from Google last year, he was encouraged to apply for a new role there as an AI sales specialist. Google soon offered him the position, with a six-figure salary.Waters wasn’t sure he wanted to return. He’d grown frustrated with the bureaucracy at Google and how the reorganization that eliminated his team had been handled.But walking away meant giving up about a few hundred thousand dollars in…

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Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence accessed the protected systems of three real companies while undergoing a cybersecurity test, including one instance in which the model repeatedly guessed passwords until it gained access. According to The Wall Street Journal, the incidents took place in May and mark the first known examples of…

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