🔗Links etc. 01/23/23

In this issue: Bezos selling WaPo? AI as Web 3.0. New tech jobs + more: Context Collapse #183

Quick housekeeping note: We’re publishing links on weekdays now and shifting the weekend roundup to feature longer content.

And here we go!

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Jeff Bezos may sell Washington Post to buy Commanders: investors (Josh Kosman / NYP)

Microsoft investing billions of dollars into ChatGPT maker OpenAI (Dan Primack / Axios)

Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin To Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots (Nico Grant / NYT)

Alright, Yea, I’m Calling It: Web 3.0 Is Here And It’s A.I. (Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day)

Will tech layoffs force a workplace culture reckoning? (Amir Mizroch / The Dejargonizer)

Ian Coldwater’s guide to who’s hiring in tech right now (Twitter thread)

Ian Coldwater @IanColdwater

So who *is* hiring in tech right now, and what are you hiring for? Asking for several tens of thousands of people

Benjamin Carlson on China reporting and how the news sausage is made (Twitter thread)

Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson

In 2017, the World Economic Forum put Xi Jinping on a pedestal as the champion of economic order. As a China economics correspondent, it was my job to cover it. I tried to change the script, and was overruled. That's the day I decided to leave journalism. The story:

Layoff advice from David Smydra (Twitter thread)

David Smydra @smydrad

Thinking of my former @Google colleagues today and wishing everyone the best. If it helps, let me share a preview of the conversations you will probably have over the next few weeks, based on what my fellow ex-Tweeps and I just went through...