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LinkedIn is a professional networking platform owned by Microsoft, used for job searching, recruiting, and business and professional networking.
Spotify launched LLM podcast recommendations in January 2026 on lower-tier GPUs because vLLM's beam search left high-end hardware underused. Its post on a collaboration with NVIDIA on TensorRT LLM starts from that constraint.
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Billion Dollar Boy Group bought B2B influencer agency Creator Authority, its first acquisition, in a deal the companies called multimillion-dollar. The case for a B2B buying wave rests on that one deal and a survey the buyer commissioned.
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LinkedIn charges nothing per API call, but posting to a company page needs Community Management API approval and starts at 500 calls a day per app. A dev.to write-up of LinkedIn's docs says teams should also budget for yearly version and connection renewals.
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LinkedIn began a free 14-week course on starting a business in September, enrolling 30 of its own employees, Fortune reported. Because the students are LinkedIn staff, the pilot can test a syllabus but cannot yet show what outside workers will pay for it.
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Tom Watson, a recruitment-firm founder, is accused of running an X account with almost 50,000 followers that doxxed executives who hire minority staff. Companies that name one executive as the public face of diverse hiring now have that person's safety to plan for.
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LinkedIn will pay corporate bonuses on individual performance alone from FY27, dropping the company half of its 50/50 formula, Business Insider reported. Managers' ratings will now decide the whole payout for everyone in the plan.
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LinkedIn's survey of 500 Australian professionals found 65 per cent had skipped a job they wanted because they doubted it was real. With scammers cloning real employees' profiles, that doubt also lands on employers advertising genuine vacancies.
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Ryan Roslansky, who took LinkedIn from 700 million to 1.3 billion members, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026, citing his family's ties to the Bay Area. Nadella will split the Microsoft 365 and Copilot role among executives already in place.
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Robert Half says 72% of managers plan to pay more for recruits with AI skills in 2027. Its raise table and LinkedIn's posting data put that premium anywhere from about two points of salary to $97,000 a year, so whichever source a budget uses sets the line item.
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Clockwork.io raised $31 million as LinkedIn runs its LinkPass failover across its AI infrastructure and Together AI sells TorchPass job recovery. Restart-free recovery now runs on paying GPU clusters, though the savings figures all come from customers.
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Clockwork Systems raised $31 million and launched TorchSnap, a tool that snapshots distributed AI jobs so they can resume after hardware failures. The customer deployments it cites predate the new feature, so its value depends on how long a buyer's own restarts take.
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Women filled about a quarter of new AI roles in the past year, against half of non-AI hires, LinkedIn found. They also hold more of the jobs AI threatens, so the hiring skew and the job risk land on the same workers.
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Workers in a tighter job market are 'loud working' to avoid layoffs, current and former staff at Amazon, Meta and another tech firm told Business Insider. Whoever sets performance ratings now has to tell solved problems from staged ones.
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Ryan Roslansky, Microsoft's Office and Teams chief, is leaving after nearly 18 years, a week after the company announced its new Copilot. His teams now report to Charles Lamanna in the Copilot, Agents, and Platform organization, so Office is run from inside Microsoft's Copilot group.
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Okta's Katie Nickels says fake remote IT workers now operate from Pakistan, India and Russia as well as North Korea, mixing AI with human techniques. That moves the first security check on a new employee into the hiring process.
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LinkedIn chief executive Dan Shapero says job seekers send 30% more applications than before the pandemic, as US openings fell to 7.08 million in August. Hiring is also close to a ten-year low, so the figures cannot yet separate an AI-polished applicant pool from plain weaker demand.
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US payrolls grew by 162,000 in August, nearly triple the 55,000 economists expected. For anyone planning headcount, that net gain says less about candidate supply than the hiring and quit rates beneath it.
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LinkedIn asks users to flag suspected AI posts, Substack labels them and Anthropic watermarks Claude's text, while detector Pangram claims 99.7% accuracy. Readers can now check anything an executive signs. That makes a written rule on AI drafting necessary.
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LinkedIn now lets admins of verified Company Pages remove known impersonator accounts from search results under the company name. Companies that have not verified their page cannot use it, so fake-employee cleanup on LinkedIn starts with whoever controls that page.
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LinkedIn now lets verified employers, which it counts at more than 700,000 companies, remove false staff from their Page's people list and search results. The impostor's profile keeps the claimed job, so the check protects only targets who look up a recruiter at a company they already know.
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