Shareholders cheer for layoffs specifically because of the savings. Lower headcount = lower operational costs and higher net profits. If headcount is reduced investors will expect to hear news of what the savings was.

The Slashdot story link is to:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-my%2Ftech...

The freemalaysiatoday is a channel (?) here -- I guess the source of the story. I almost looks like an ad since you have the sidebar on the right that has links to the freemalayasiatoday website. So I guess this is kinda a "news by tertiary source situation". FreeMalayasiaToday republishes a story by Bloomburg, and MSN picks it up from FreeMalayasiaToday.

Curious why they think AI will increase senior leadership headcount. With fewer lower-level employees why would they need more management? Also, considering the salaries those senior managers feel they deserve, that will quickly eat up any cost savings from the layoffs.

And there never was any such evidence. This entire charade can be explained as "Trump makes bombastic claims he can force a foreign business to sell, gets lesson in reality, shows he's too chicken to follow through on his threats." He can't lose a major tent pole of his circus.

I'm sure the comments for this article will be filled with well-thought-out replies and level-headed discussion on technology and political freedom.

What do you mean? Didn't you see that AI video he posted awhile back with the jet? He certainly took a dump on people who coincidentally watch TV too.

Not reading the summary: Task completed successfully.

There is nothing relating to patents in this story. Terms being used in product names have to be actively used in a product. You can't just call dibs on a word and then not do anything with it. That includes terms you used in the past. Otherwise we would eventually run out of practical names for products due to past use in history and "Trademark Trolls" who register everything in the dictionary and sit on it -- the result will be product names that look like email addresses.

laughs in capitalism

I suspect a lot of these people are signing up because they heard about seven figure salaries and huge sign-on bonuses. But, assuming the AI bubble hasn't burst by the time they graduate, I doubt those types of positions will still be a thing by then. The FAANG are spending big bucks to grab talent now in a race. Talent that's already got a decade if experience under the belt in comp sci and machine learning. Not a wet behind the ears undergrad.

Come on, has the last 12 months not taught you anything? Clearly Trump would add massive tariffs to the import of those vehicles to allow the domestic manufacturers a chance to catch up.

Sounds like a great way to create a new competitor to your own business. I'd like to think American business leadership has seen enough examples to know this is a bad idea from an information security perspective.

For most Americans, AI getting better just means a higher chance of being put out of work. Why would we want that? Let the Chinese put themselves at a risk of revolution faster. Wont bother me.

But boxed software works on its own as long as it's run on a compatible hardware and software (OS) platform. Netflix is an app and a service for the app.

You can pass a law they have to keep making the old app available, but that doesn't mean they have to keep delivering content to the old app

Amusingly I stayed in a hotel a couple years ago that offered no in room entertainment system for streaming. You scanned a QR code on screen to link your mobile phone to the Google Chrome-eaque device on the back of the TV in your room, so you could cast any apps you wanted to use.

I think you accidentally a word there.