{"id":956096,"date":"2025-08-19T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956096"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:18:53","slug":"duolingo-ceo-on-the-ai-memo-that-created-outrage-some-people-assume-that-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/duolingo-ceo-on-the-ai-memo-that-created-outrage-some-people-assume-that-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo CEO on the AI memo that created outrage: Some people assume that it&#8217;s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn acknowledged he failed to provide adequate context when announcing the language-learning company&#8217;s pivot to become &#8220;AI-first&#8221; earlier this year, sparking widespread user backlash and subscription cancellation threats. In a recent interview with The New York Times, von Ahn took responsibility for the confusion, saying the memo was misinterpreted as a cost-cutting measure rather than a strategic enhancement.<\/p>\n<p>Company maintains no layoff policy despite AI integration push<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn acknowledged he failed to provide adequate context when announcing the language-learning company&#8217;s pivot to become &#8220;AI-first&#8221; earlier this year, sparking widespread user backlash and subscription cancellation threats. In a recent interview with The New York Times, von Ahn took responsibility for the confusion, saying the memo was misinterpreted as a cost-cutting measure rather than a strategic enhancement. Company maintains no layoff policy despite AI integration push<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}