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College athletes are getting closer to becoming employees. What would happen next?

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The NCAA inches closer every day to a tipping point of dramatic overhaul. Years of tectonic shifts around college sports could soon usher in an era its leaders and administrators have long tried to avoid: the treatment of college athletes as employees.

The next milestone could come Tuesday, when the Dartmouth men’s basketball team will vote on whether to form a union. The university is countering by fighting a National Labor Relations Board regional director’s finding that the basketball players

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How ChatGPT Fractured OpenAI – The Atlantic

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Updated at 10:39 p.m. ET on November 19, 2023

To truly understand the events of the past 48 hours—the shocking, sudden ousting of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, arguably the figurehead of the generative-AI revolution, followed by reports that the company is now in talks to bring him back—one must understand that OpenAI is not a technology company. At least, not like other epochal companies of the internet age, such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft.

OpenAI was deliberately structured to resist

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Two 7-Eleven Employees Under Investigation After Thwarting Suspected Gun-Strapped Thief: Report

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Two 7-Eleven workers in Northern California are under investigation by local police after stopping and assaulting a suspected gun-strapped thief who allegedly had robbed the convenience store twice just hours earlier.

In a now-viral video filmed on July 29 around 2:45 a.m., an unnamed male wearing a mask allegedly walked behind the front counter of a 7-Eleven store located in Stockton, California, and began clearing shelves of cigarettes and other store products into a large trash can, apparently with the

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Tesla’s NDA breach claim against Rivian employees heads to trial

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Almost a dozen former Tesla Inc. employees who left to work Rivian Automotive Inc. can’t avoid a trial over claims in a trade secrets suit that they breached Tesla confidentiality agreements before they joined its upstart rival.

A state court judge on Wednesday tentatively denied the employees’ request for a summary adjudication ruling — which would have dismissed Tesla’s claim that they had signed agreements and other contracts that forbade them from stealing proprietary information and disclosing it to competitors.

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The best way to hire employees in 2022

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Have you been trying to find a good way to hire new employees for your business? We know the feeling. While there’s a big pool of people out there, it’s important to find the right person for your business. After all, they’re a walking advertisement for the quality of your business. One of the best job search sites is ZipRecruiter. It’s the best way to hire the perfect employees for your business, thanks to offering plenty of features that

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Nearly 200 Beverly Hills Hotel employees have worked at ‘The Pink Palace’ for over 20 years

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The Beverly Hills Hotel opened on May 12, 1912, two years before the city of Beverly Hills was even built. With its signature green and white stripes, banana leaf print and pink facade, the iconic establishment earned the nickname “The Pink Palace” and has been hosting Hollywood royalty ever since.

It became an instant celebrity hangout in the Golden Age of Hollywood with Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes, John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe among its most famous guests. 

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Former Abercrombie & Fitch employees of color reveal the abuse they suffered 

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Former employees of disgraced retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch have aired new claims about the company’s discriminatory hiring practices in a Netflix documentary. 

Speaking in White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, which was released on the streaming platform last night, former employees claimed they were sidelined from their jobs at the retailer’s US stores because of their ethnicity, claims that Abercrombie has denied repeatedly. 

White Hot looks into the hiring practices of the company, stemming from

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Create equitable experiences to empower your employees

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And it’s more important than ever for companies to evaluate the new technologies teams are implementing to ensure they are facilitating the desired outcomes, as well as to assess a particular technology’s potential application to other areas and teams in the company. “In a sales organization, for example, certain teams may have access to certain tools that increase their productivity. Well guess what? Other teams might be able to benefit from that as well,” says Hughell. “It’s important when we

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Better.com’s CEO is ‘taking time off effective immediately’ after firing 900 employees on Zoom 

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The CEO of Better.com, who fired 900 employees on Zoom and accused them of stealing last week, is ‘taking time off effective immediately,’ according to an internal memo.

In the email, obtained by Vice, the mortgage lender company’s board of directors told employees Friday morning that Vishal Garg would be taking time off and that the company had hired an outside firm to ‘do a leadership and cultural assessment.’   

The email read: ‘Vishal and the Board wanted to provide Better

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