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Could Lovable's automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?

Could Lovable's automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?: Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics. Read More

Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, CEO says: Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into AI -- Bumble is even working on an AI dating assistant called Bee, and the CEO has made many comments over the years about how AI will be "a supercharger to love and relationships." Read More

Elon Musk's lawsuit is putting OpenAI's safety record under the microscope: Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. Read More

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