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Duolingo Replaces Human Contractors With AI

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Back in 2012, the company focused on mobile before most others did a decision that helped fuel its early success. This thinking is becoming more common in tech (Shopifys CEO recently told employees that AI should be the first option before teams request more resources). For Duolingo, this feels like a turning point.

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Google Predicts Transformative Power Of Quantum Computing Could Hit Workplaces Within Five Years

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Google has been working on its quantum computing program since 2012 and has designed and built several quantum chips. The sector was given a boost in December when Google announced it had cracked a key challenge in the field with its new chips.

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Recruit Holdings To Slash 1,300 Jobs, Fold Glassdoor Into Indeed As AI Takes Priority

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Recruit, which acquired Indeed in 2012 and Glassdoor in 2018, currently has 20,000 employees in the HR technology business unit. LaFawn Davis, chief people and sustainability officer of Indeed, will also step down effective September 1, and will be succeeded by Ayano Senaha, chief operating officer of Recruit.

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Walmart, IBM, And Startups Drive New Wave Of Office Leases As AI Boom Spreads Beyond Silicon Valley

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Still, analysts caution that a return to the explosive leasing rates seen between 2012 and 2019 is unlikely in the short term. But the resurgence is just as noteworthy in New York, where tech leasing has reached its highest level since 2000, closing out 2024 with a post-pandemic record.

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Is salutogenic design the next big issue for the workplace?

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Similarly Jan Golembiewski came to the same general conclusion in his 2012 paper Salutogenic design: The neural basis for health promoting environments from World Health Design Scientific Review.

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Burn the Boats: Embrace Commitment and Achieve Your Goals

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Ultimately, competitors overtook Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Because Kodak continued clinging to its past successes in film, it couldn’t draw up a new strategy for success as digital photography began to take off. This is because they lack the confidence to take a leap of faith.

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Why the Future of Work Isn’t About ‘Going Back’ with Melissa Marsh

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So, yeah, the observation I made, it actually originally came from being in lower Manhattan in 2011, 2012, 10 years after 9 11, and the devastating events that had happened there 10 years earlier. It’s great to be Back to the Future here with you. I’m sure you get that pun all the time. And when, when Covid happened.

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