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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Coinbase cuts 18 percent staff; Google suspends engineer for ‘sentient’ AI claim; HDFC Bank, 100X.VC strike partnership
Description: Coinbase is laying off almost a fifth of its workforce amid a collapse in its stock and crypto prices, CNBC reports.
The cryptocurrency exchange will cut 18 percent of full-time jobs, according to an email sent to employees on Tuesday. Coinbase has roughly 5,000 full-time workers, translating to a head count reduction of around 1,100 people, according to CNBC.
Google, has suspended an AI engineer, Blake Lemoine, for claiming that an artificial intelligence he helped to develop had become sentient, The Washington Post reports.
“If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this comput...