{"id":21857,"date":"2026-02-04T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-creating-software-to-identify-fired-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:17","slug":"pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-creating-software-to-identify-fired-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-creating-software-to-identify-fired-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI  <\/p>\n<p>Pinterest has fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts and then shared the information, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The digital pinboard business announced significant job cuts earlier this month, with the chief executive, Bill Ready, telling staff he was \u201cdoubling down on an AI-forward approach\u201d, according to a LinkedIn post by a former employee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/04\/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-software-identify-fired-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49ea7c63328503733d77be172d1df1f0005232f1\/70_0_3262_2609\/master\/3262.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d6bcf9139081148ad5869c9f92f3cdb1\" title=\"Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers\" \/>Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI<br \/>\nPinterest has fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts and then shared the information, according to reports.<br \/>\nThe digital pinboard business announced significant job cuts earlier this month, with the chief executive, Bill Ready, telling staff he was \u201cdoubling down on an AI-forward approach\u201d, according to a LinkedIn post by a former employee. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI Pinterest has fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts and then shared the information, according to reports. The digital pinboard business announced significant job cuts earlier this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-creating-software-to-identify-fired-workers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}