2025-04-29
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is now going to be "AI-first," the company has announced — aka it will drop employees in favor of using AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle." This follows the company's January 2024 decision to cut 10 percent of its contractors, in part because AI could do their tasks.
In the email, von Ahn points to Duolingo's "need to create a massive amount of c [...]
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2025-04-29
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI for content creation
Duolingo is now going to be "AI-first," the company has announced — aka it will drop employees in favor of using AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will [...]
2025-03-19
Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA teste [...]
2025-01-28
Whole Foods workers form first union since Amazon acquisition
A majority of workers at a Whole Foods location in Philadelphia have voted to unionize, as reported by Reuters. This makes the Pennsylvania store the first to unionize under Amazon’s ownership, and [...]
2025-01-16
'TikTok Refugees' are learning Mandarin Chinese on Duolingo for RedNote
In a few days, TikTok could be banned in the US, rendering the app unusable and removing it from app stores. Instead of making do with Instagram Reels, people looked for a closer alternative and found [...]
2025-04-29
Duolingo announces major shift toward generative AI and automation
Duolingo is restructuring its operations to focus on generative AI for content creation and process automation. The company plans to gradually reduce reliance on contractors wherever AI can handle the [...]
2025-04-30
Duolingo says AI let it build more courses in one year than it did over the past twelve
Duolingo is restructuring its operations to focus on generative AI for content creation and process automation. The company plans to gradually reduce reliance on contractors wherever AI can handle the [...]
2025-01-22
Google reportedly made sure Israel's military had access to its AI tools
Google has been a much larger facilitator of tools to Israel during its war with Hamas than previously disclosed. A new report from The Washington Post found that Google employees have repeatedly work [...]