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Some NVIDIA employees are calling for former CEO Jensen Huang to return. A long-serving engineer submitted feedback through the company's internal suggestion channel before Jensen Huang's resignation, requesting the board to consider employee sentiments before taking action and to publish the survey results, formally soliciting employee opinions on Jensen Huang continuing as CEO. This matter has accumulated over 1,600 comments, the majority of which support Jensen Huang's reinstatement. Another employee sent an email to the entire company, requesting increased transparency regarding Jensen Huang's departure.Jensen Huang has led the company since NVIDIA's founding in 1993. In an email sent to employees on Sunday, he admitted to infidelity and stated that there were "no excuses." The board announced his resignation on Thursday morning, following media reports alleging that he had an extramarital affair with a direct subordinate; Reuters subsequently reported that he was also alleged to have had an affair with another NVIDIA employee. Jensen Huang has not responded to related reports since the Sunday email. The board has appointed Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO and appointed former Synopsys CEO Harvey Jones as chairman.

According to screenshots circulating on social platform X, the official X account of the digital asset trading platform Websea once posted an accusatory tweet, publicly accusing the company's owner and CEO of withholding employee salaries and reimbursements, which was later deleted.The content of the screenshot shows that the poster claims employees have dedicated time and effort to the company but have not received basic salaries and work reimbursements, and alleges that the company has seemingly stopped normal operations, with management failing to provide a clear payment arrangement. The poster demands that the owner and CEO of Websea respond directly to the issues of unpaid salaries and reimbursements, publish a clear and credible payment schedule, and settle all outstanding employee payments as soon as possible, while also calling for industry attention to this matter.

Binance co-founder He Yi posted that in recent days, the internet has been filled with scandalous rumors about Asian women and spies, and many female professionals in the industry have been passively drawn into various scandals, which makes her feel complicated. She believes that equality should be pursued, meaning that one should evaluate a person's achievements without regard to gender.She pointed out that opportunities for women in the workplace are not equal, and workplace harassment is also common. Female managers who can stand on their own often have to invest more time and effort than others.He Yi mentioned that accounts that create rumors by exploiting gender should be cleared from the industry. The legal department will provide legal protection for Binance's female employees, and she welcomes ambitious and down-to-earth women to join Binance, where the company will provide a fair and transparent workplace environment.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Financial Security Institute (FSI), a financial security agency under the Financial Services Commission of South Korea, was hacked, resulting in the leakage of hundreds of pieces of information, including about 300 personal information records of employees from financial institutions.

AI search company Perplexity officially launched Teammates, allowing AI Agents to be responsible for specific tasks long-term like employees. CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed that approximately 10,000 AI Teammates have been created internally in the last 30 days, which is 20 times the total number of human employees.Teammates are built on Perplexity Computer. After users assign roles, goals, and permissions to the AI, it can continuously track work progress, proactively identify issues, and call upon tools to address them. Multiple Teammates can also divide tasks among themselves and contact human colleagues via Slack. For example, a sales Agent can discover that a customer has not placed an order for a long time, automatically investigate the reasons, and prepare a follow-up plan; a development Agent can hand off the task of writing a fix code to another Agent after discovering a website bug. Each Agent has an independent working environment, retaining project memory and task history, allowing users to check progress, adjust direction, or take over operations at any time.Business Insider exposed Perplexity's internal Teammate tool in July this year, which was primarily used for software engineering tasks such as bug tracking and system monitoring. The product has now expanded to marketing, sales, customer service, and operations, adding long-term task management and cross-Agent collaboration. Teammates are currently available in research preview form to Max subscription users at $200 per month, initially supporting the web version, with native mobile and desktop versions to be launched later.

According to Decrypt, Hollywood film companies and production companies are issuing guidelines prohibiting employees from using insider information to bet on prediction markets. The regulations prohibit employees from betting on events such as film company earnings reports, casting decisions, and release dates, and also prohibit sharing information with friends and family for them to place bets. At least one company has set up an anonymous hotline for employees to report colleagues suspected of betting.Penske Media, the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, updated its employee handbook in recent weeks to prohibit betting on award nominations, casting decisions, production schedules, and release dates. Joshua Mitts, a law professor at Columbia University who studies prediction markets, stated that many employers now have to consider insider trading rules from an ethical perspective, but enforcing these rules can be difficult, as transactions based on blockchain may be "virtually untraceable" if insiders use mixers and hide their identities layer by layer.

ByteDance recently introduced new internal management regulations for the use of AI tools, which will significantly restrict employees from accessing internal company data through external AI tools like Claude and Codex using personal accounts. It is reported that starting this month, ByteDance will implement a ban on external AI access for all L4 level code repositories and Feishu documents across the company, and AI accounts purchased by employees will no longer be able to access relevant internal resources.The notice was released internally at ByteDance last week, subsequently sparking discussions among some employees. The discussions mainly focused on the usage permissions of external AI tools, internal information security, and the relationship between the company's own AI products and third-party tools.ByteDance's relevant person in charge, Hong Dingkun, emphasized that internal information security is an important consideration for this adjustment, stating, "If L3 and above content is leaked, the consequences are very serious."

According to the insider trading policy document submitted by Apple, the company prohibits individuals bound by this policy from using confidential information obtained in the course of their work at Apple or other companies to bet, trade, or buy and sell event contracts on prediction markets or similar platforms.The policy also prohibits disclosing relevant confidential information to individuals who may participate in such markets, regardless of whether the relevant actions constitute insider trading or securities trading under applicable law; the ban applies in all cases. The policy covers Apple directors, executives, employees, independent contractors, and consultants, and the document indicates that the policy was updated in October 2026.

According to an interview with the New York Post, U.S. President Trump stated that if Democrats follow through on their threat to sue his government staff, he is willing to offer preemptive pardons to those who have worked for his administration if necessary.When asked if this would apply to all who have worked for him, Trump said he would do so and mentioned previous pardons for those charged in the January 6 Capitol riot. Regarding the talk of arresting Musk, he said it was just speculation, but there is a need to protect the individuals involved.

According to TechCrunch, a hacker claiming to be from the "Department of Peace" has reportedly obtained a large amount of employee data from the Okta single sign-on system used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was publicly released on Wednesday by the data transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) as the "Icepick" dataset. The leaked records exceed 40,000, accounting for about one-fifth of DHS's approximately 220,000 employees, involving names, positions, work emails, phone numbers, and office locations, along with information related to internal system permissions. Among these, approximately 21,000 records belong to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, while about 10,000 records involve the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with nearly 1,000 related to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).TechCrunch stated that it has verified the authenticity of some of the data, with timestamps indicating that the data was exported around mid-August. The hacker also provided the data to journalist and hacker maia arson crimew, who then forwarded it to DDoSecrets. Okta responded that its systems and data were not breached; a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to requests for comment. The report indicates that this is the third incident of data leakage from the U.S. government that has drawn attention in the past month, following the theft of Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel files and Pentagon personnel data.

According to a report by Financial Associated Press, Microsoft announced on October 26 local time that it will offer a voluntary severance compensation plan to approximately 60,000 employees to reduce costs and adjust its workforce for the AI era. More than a quarter of the total employee count is eligible, marking the company's third round of workforce adjustments this year.A spokesperson stated that some vice presidents and below in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom are eligible to apply, and those who accept the plan will receive benefits similar to standard severance packages. According to informed sources, departments such as Xbox, Windows, Copilot, and finance will fully participate, while some employees in data centers, sales, marketing, cybersecurity, and quantum computing will not be eligible. Chief Human Resources Officer Amy Coleman mentioned in an internal letter that the plan provides an option for employees considering leaving to transition with the company's support, and it is another way for departments to adjust their teams. The spokesperson also noted that if top talent accepts the plan, the company will attempt to retain them in some cases.In April this year, Microsoft launched its first voluntary retirement program for about 8,750 eligible U.S. employees, with over 30% ultimately accepting; in July, it announced layoffs of approximately 4,800 people, accounting for about 2.1% of the total workforce. The spokesperson expects the number of acceptances this time to be far less than the voluntary retirement program. As of the end of June, Microsoft had a total of 223,000 employees. According to the financial report on July 29, capital expenditures for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026 were $41 billion, a year-on-year increase of about 70%, and capital expenditures for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 are expected to be about $50 billion.

As of September 30, Anthropic had approximately 5,300 employees. The company's total operating expenses for the first half of the year as of June 30 were $16.98 billion.

OpenAI announced that Uber will provide the ChatGPT Enterprise version to all employees and will use OpenAI's cutting-edge models through ChatGPT Work.

According to Microsoft's 10-K filing for fiscal year 2026, as of June 30, 2026, the company had approximately 223,000 full-time employees, down from 228,000 the previous year, a decrease of about 5,000, marking the first decline in ten years.Among them, there are 121,000 employees in the United States and 102,000 employees overseas; approximately 77,000 employees are in research and development, a decrease of about 4,000 from the peak in 2024. During the same period, Microsoft's revenue for fiscal year 2026 increased by 18% year-on-year, reaching $331.8 billion.The above employee statistics do not include the new round of approximately 4,800 job cuts in July 2026. Microsoft previously stated that the eliminated positions would not be directly replaced by AI.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced three proposals for the safe development of super AI to employees last week. The first is to establish a global regulatory organization similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency, to inspect advanced models and audit safety measures. Insiders say Altman leans towards this route.The second proposal emulates the European Organization for Nuclear Research, merging major AI laboratories into one organization or collaborating through a unified agency for joint development, rather than continuing to race against each other. The third and most extreme, which he referred to as the "Eliezer Plan": an AI company achieves recursive self-improvement first, and then uses overwhelming economic power to control computing power, making it impossible for other developers to catch up. Altman described this idea as "melting down all other companies' GPUs," while stating that this plan is very bad and is only meant to illustrate the extreme possibility.The idea of "melting down GPUs" comes from AI safety researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He proposed a thought experiment in 2021, suggesting that super AI could create self-replicating nanomachines to melt down global GPUs, stating that this is merely an extreme example to illustrate the intensity of intervention, not a proposal to be executed. OpenAI proposed the establishment of an "AI version of the International Atomic Energy Agency" in 2023, and Google DeepMind head Hassabis has also advocated for the creation of an "AI version of CERN." Currently, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic plan to establish a joint safety standards organization by the end of this year or early next year, but there are disagreements over the responsibility for model safety testing. Altman hopes to set speed limits for AI development while stating that OpenAI cannot currently cede its competitive advantage to rivals.

Market news reports that Netflix (NFLX.O) is undergoing a restructuring, which is expected to affect about 5% of employees, with the announcement possibly as early as next week.

ChainCatcher live report, at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, World Liberty Financial co-founder Eric Trump stated that the era of paying salaries with stablecoins has arrived. He revealed that his family business, as a "super employer," has tens of thousands of employees in global hotel assets and is "undoubtedly researching" salary payments in stablecoins. He pointed out that it has become common for athletes to request payment in Bitcoin for contracts, and the appreciation of underlying assets often far exceeds the contract amount; for ordinary employees, check clearing takes 24-36 hours, while people want money "immediately in their accounts."

Market news indicates that Apple originally planned to lay off 5,000 AppleCare employees, but later canceled this plan.