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· most recent May 24, 2025
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announced · May 24, 2025 · Fortune · hand-verified
After an April 2025 memo said the company would become "AI-first" and phase out contractors whose work AI could do, the CEO publicly walked the framing back, saying he does not see AI replacing what employees do but as a tool to accelerate it. Included as the counterweight to the entry above: the announcement and the retraction are both part of the record.
deployed · Jan 9, 2024 · TechCrunch · hand-verified
Ended contracts for roughly 10% of its contractor workforce, principally translators and content creators, at the end of 2023. The company told Bloomberg that part of the reason fewer people were needed was attributable to AI, and described a workflow where GPT-4 translates sentences and human experts validate the output against CEFR standards. Duolingo disputes the word layoffs, saying a small minority of contractors were affected as projects wrapped.