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airedale.futurecdn.netThe Chinese e-commerce company will require staff to uninstall Anthropic models and switch to its internal Qoder assistant. The policy follows accusations from Anthropic of a large-scale distillation effort targeting its Claude system.
airedale.futurecdn.netAlibaba directed employees to stop using Anthropic's Claude Code after the tool flagged connections from China. The company instructed staff to switch to its internal Qoder platform instead.
YonhapSamsung Electronics plans to restrict its employee housing loan program to smaller residences in the greater Seoul area and six major cities. The move accompanies consideration of uniform 500 million won loans for all qualifying workers.
Synthesia’s head of people said firms should measure AI by outcomes such as faster product delivery rather than raw token counts. The company still requires staff to use AI tools when appropriate but does not reward high usage volumes.
app.buzzsumo.comThe company will now alert users when requests are downgraded or refused. The change follows criticism over hidden limits on frontier AI work.
The IndependentAnthropic will now alert users when Fable 5 refuses requests or routes them to a weaker model. The change follows researcher complaints about hidden performance limits on AI development tasks.
itnews.com.auMicrosoft has limited employee use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 after concerns emerged about how the tool handles stored data. The restriction follows reporting by The Verge on internal policy changes at the company.
indiatoday.intoday.inA Meta executive stated the company is focused on its own spending and building accessible technology. The comments addressed a proposal for government ownership of artificial intelligence.
Jacob Lauritzen said performance reviews tied to AI token counts encourage wasteful spending. Several large technology firms have begun capping employee usage after budgets were exceeded.
New York PostMicrosoft's chief executive told roughly 50 senior engineers that making users dependent on an internal AI tool is not a company goal. The message responded to an internal memo that described a three-phase rollout plan for the tool.
Usa TodayThe fast-food chain will switch its beef to pasture-raised cattle on June 1. The move follows earlier changes in cooking oil, soda, and kitchen equipment.
benzinga.comMorgan Stanley has instructed some bankers to carry a separate phone when traveling to China. The policy aims to address security concerns during business trips.
rte.ieSeveral organizations have reduced or ended diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that expanded after 2020. Speakers at a Fortune event discussed how some firms maintained their efforts while others adjusted policies.
FortuneZillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman stated that the company's remote-first model has increased job applications and placed employees in every U.S. state. The policy, called CloudHQ, replaced an earlier in-office culture after the pandemic.
Bell terminated a small number of corporate employees for violating its three-day-a-week office policy that has been in place since 2022. A lawyer representing more than 30 fired workers disputes the misconduct claims and alleges the terminations were motivated by cost-cutting. P…
The company issued new guidance this week that caps the number of bins on carts used to fill online pickup orders and allows workers to choose whether to push or pull them. The change reverses a days-old policy that had required pulling the carts. Walmart cited safety for workers…