Microsoft announced layoffs across multiple divisions on October 17; source: less than 1,000 jobs were cut across various levels, teams, and parts of the world (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Sources: Twitter starts cutting an unspecified number of contractor workers in various fields, including content moderation, real estate, marketing, and others  —  After laying off half its staff earlier this month, Twitter on Saturday started culling its vast ranks of contract staff, sources confirmed to Axios.

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Amazon is shutting down its Treasure Truck deal-of-the-day program, after it had pivoted to be online-only during the pandemic  —  Amazon is putting the breaks on its “Treasure Truck” deal-of-the-day program, Axios has confirmed. … – That made it more widely available …

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Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such  —  Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.

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Six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, pledge not to support the weaponization of their products, say adding weapons will erode trust in robots  —  Several robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, are pledging not to support the weaponization of their products and are calling …

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Adobe argues Figma will help it rethink design tools for the cloud era; Adobe’s competing product, XD, generated just $15M in annual revenue after seven years  —  Adobe executives think there’s a lot that critics of its $20 billion purchase of Figma are missing.

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New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used by marketplaces like eBay of 50M+ car parts from 20K+ suppliers and OEMs, raised a $21M Series A  —  Car parts buyers require specific parts to fit specific vehicles, making for a supply-constrained environment.