Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools
You might think the big story out of Match Group's first-quarter earnings is Tinder's turnaround. The dating app's revenue is slightly up again after quarter-after-quarter of declines. But we'd like to point to a comment the chief financial officer made about how the company is slowing its hiring right now because it needs more money to pay for AI tools for its employees. While on the surface, this looks like another example of AI taking people's jobs — in this case, forcing a company to lower its number of ...