Tesla Will Axe Almost 2,700 Jobs From Texas HQ


by Carscoops

Carscoops— Layoffs represent a 12 percent cut in Tesla’s headcount in the Austin area

CNBC—Tesla cutting around 2,700 jobs in Austin and more than 3,300 in California as part of broad restructuring. Tesla is eliminating about 12% of its workforce at a factory in Austin, Texas, where the electric vehicle company is headquartered.

The Guardian—‘Almost beyond belief’: axing of UK teacher recruitment scheme will worsen crisis, say critics. The government’s scrapping of the Now Teach scheme, which has overdelivered on targets for older workers, has sparked an outcryMinisters have been accused of making a crisis in the recruitment of teachers even worse after axing funding to a much-praised programme helping older workers start a new career in the classroom.An outcry is already beginning over the decision to axe the career change programme, with organisers complaining that there “will be barely anyone left to teach our children”...

The Independent—Microsoft will invest $2.2 billion in cloud and AI services in Malaysia. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Malaysia