Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says
The employees encouraged limits on the complexes in a series of hearings in the tech giant’s hometown, Seattle.
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Odyssey, the world model AI startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has closed a $310 million Series B round at a $1.45 billion valuation. The round was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, and GV among the participants. The company has now raised $337 million in total. World […]
Read full articleThe employees encouraged limits on the complexes in a series of hearings in the tech giant’s hometown, Seattle.
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The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal
When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and one day after the City Council passed a milestone moratorium on data centers - Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand were each called into an impromptu meeting with Amazon's "Employee Relations." HR representatives told the employees that the company was investigating them … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Insider Brief Odyssey has raised $310 million in a Series B funding round that values the world-models AI startup at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT, along with a group of existing investors that includes former Cruise founder Kyle Vogt, Applied Intuition […]