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Glassdoor ve Indeed artık tek bir şirket altında faaliyet gösteriyor; Glassdoor markası Temmuz 2026'dan itibaren Indeed Incorporated çatısı içinde operasyonel hale geldi. Bu birleşme süreci aslında daha önceki yıllarda başlatılmış olsa da, kullanıcılar için herhangi bir işlem gerektirmeyen bu değişiklik sayesinde artık her iki platformda da tek bir giriş sistemi kullanılabiliyor. Her iki şirketin kuruluşundan beri vurgulanan temel vizyon olan iş yerindeki şeffaflığı korumak amacıyla yapılan anonim paylaşımların gizliliği tamamen korunmaya devam edecek; yani maaş bilgileri, çalışma deneyimleri ve geçmiş işverenler hakkında sağlanan tüm veriler yine güvenli bir şekilde saklanacak. Bu birleşmenin kullanıcılar için hem avantajları hem de dezavantajları bulunuyor. En belirgin artı olarak artık tek bir platform üzerinden her iki siteye erişim sağlayabilmek ve iş ilanlarını sadece bir yere girerek otomatik olarak diğerine yönlendirilebilmesi sağlanıyor; ancak bu kolaylığın bedeli hesapların birbirinden ayrıştırılamamasında yatıyor. Kullanıcılar, hesapları tekrar bağlamak istediklerinde tek seçenek tüm hesabını silmek olacak ki bu da oldukça pratik olmayan bir durum. Ayrıca birleşmenin ardından şirketler yaklaşık 1300 çalışanının işten çıkarılmasına karar vermiş ve veri yönetimi açısından kullanıcıların kişisel bilgilerini silebilmesi artık daha önceki kadar kolay olmayacak, çünkü veriler iki ayrı sistemden tek çatı altında toplanmış durumda. Teknoloji dünyasında yapay zeka yatırımlarına dair önemli bir gerçeklik de bu dönemde ortaya kondu; yapılan araştırmalar gösteriyor ki %57'si girişimci olan şirketlerin AI harcamalarının getirisini karşılayamadığı ve MIT'nin bağımsız çalışması da pilot projelerin ölçülebilir kârlılık etkisi yaratmadığını doğruladı. Yine de 2026'da üretim kapasitesinde iyileşme raporlayan liderler, yapay zekanın maliyetleri karşılamadığı halde işlevsel faydalar sağladığını belirtiyor; bu durum şirketlerin milyarlarca dolarlık yatırımlarının neden kârsız olduğunu sorgulamaya yol açıyor. Bununla birlikte ABD hükümetinin Anthropic gibi büyük AI firmalarını kullanmayı durdurmasıyla karşılık olarak Kaliforniya valisinin eyalet kurumlarına özel indirimli anlaşma yapması, regülasyonların nasıl şekilleneceğine dair ilginç bir örnek sunuyor. Sonuç olarak Avrupa Birliği'nin 2026 Ağustos'unda yürürlüğe girmeyi planladığı ancak sektör bazlı yükümlülüklere ilişkin gecikmelerle 2028'e kadar uzatmayı düşündüğü yapay zeka yasası, küresel teknoloji şirketleri için ciddi bir uyum süreci oluşturuyor. AB'nin yüksek riskli sistemler konusunda uyguladığı sıkı denetim rejimi ve milyonlarca euroya varan ceza tehdidi, özellikle ABD gibi regülasyonlarda daha esnek davranan ülkeler için de uyarıcı niteliğinde; çünkü şirketlerin global olarak faaliyet göstermek istemeleri durumunda bu kurallara uyum sağlamaları zorunlu. Gelecekte yapay zekanın toplumsal faydası ve riskleri, hem Kaliforniya'nın deneme projelerini hem de AB'nin önleyici yaklaşımını gözlemlemek suretiyle netleşecek; ancak şu an için hükümetlerin AI kullanımına dair tutumlarının farklılık göstermesi ve bu alanlarda henüz evrensel bir standart bulunmaması dikkat çekiyor.
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Hello everybody, there's a lot of things that's been going on in the world of tech, data, and AI, and we're going to talk about some of those things. The first thing is that Glassdoor and Indeed are now one company. And it says right here that the Glassdoor brand is now operating under the umbrella of Indeed Incorporated as of July 1st, 2026. You can see right here, no action is needed from you, but you can continue to use the one login we introduced earlier this year. That was like a month ago. So now you have one login for both of these. And of course, it says Glassdoor was founded with the vision of increasing workplace transparency, and transparency thrives when your anonymity is protected. So all those anonymous contributions that you make for your salary and where you're working and how many years of experience and all that information, uh that is still all going to be private. Now this is completely new to me. Apparently, this is not new. This was actually initiated back in like 2025. The merger didn't actually happen until July 1st of 2026, and I'm just now hearing about this for the very first time just about two or three days ago. Now genuinely, these are two of the biggest platforms to apply to jobs anonymous reviews for your previous employers and get a lot of data on things like salaries in different regions and a ton of different stuff. They're great platforms. I actually really like Glassdoor for their feature where you can go and you can say, "Hey, I live in Dallas, Texas. I have this many years of experience." And then they give you information on what you should be expecting in terms of salary in the next year or what kind of companies are hiring for that stuff. It's a really great feature. I have talked about it many times on my YouTube channel. So of course, this is just really interesting to me. Now there are some pros and there are definitely some cons of this type of merger for you as a job applicant or for somebody who wants to be using these platforms. The pros are you just log into one and you have access to both cuz you're going to link your accounts and you're just going to have to go to one platform now. You won't have to go to two separate platforms, apply to different places, it's all in one place. So for that, it's makes it a little bit easier, I guess. All the anonymity and all the anonymous posts that you can put and all the reviews of your previous companies that you can put, those are all still the same. So, not much has changed there. And if you are actually posting a job, you're like the company, you're saying, "Hey, I want to hire somebody." You don't have to post it to platforms anymore. You just post to one, and it'll go to both platforms cuz you have everything linked to both cuz they still are separate websites. They're not just one website. So, there are pros to it, but here are some of the cons, which I definitely think are cons. One, you can't unlink your accounts. So, once you link both of these accounts, the only way you can unlink them is if you just delete your entire account, which is not optimal at all. The next thing is that Glassdoor and Indeed actually laid off about 1,300 employees because of this merger. So, they were like, hey, we're merging together. We don't need a full company for both of these. We just need, you know, some combination of that. They let go of over 1,000 people. That's a lot. That's not really a great thing. Now, when two companies come together, oftentimes it's because they want your data in a different way or they want to merge this data or sell this data or different things. And 100% that is happening here. Is your data is going to be in two separate places, and if you want to delete it, apparently it's not as easy as it was before. The next thing is that AI ROI fails to outpace spend for 57% of enterprises, unchanged since 2025. Now, right down here is something I thought was interesting. It says that independent research from MIT reached a parallel conclusion just 1 month later, finding 95% of organizations running AI pilots on no measurable profit and loss impact. This is not breaking news as a lot of other studies have showed this, but a lot of companies are implementing a ton of AI stuff, but they aren't necessarily getting a big return on it, right? They're spending, let's say, 10 million and they're making like 10 million dollars in ROI from it. So, they're not losing money, but they're definitely not gaining money. And so, if you're putting this huge investment into this new technology, you're expecting kind of a return on that. This survey was of 639 senior enterprise AI leaders, and they said 93% reported improved production capability in 2026, up from 88% in 2025. So, it's not that AI is not helping, it's not that AI isn't a good thing, it's just not making them more money. And so, that is kind of an important thing in the business aspect. I think you can all agree that if you're investing, you want to make money. And so, this is just really interesting. I mean, as the years go on, I think you're going to see more improvement in AI. It's going to have more capabilities, it's going to do more things, but are companies actually making money from this? Are they willing to invest, you know, millions and millions of dollars into this technology if they aren't going to be making money from it? That's something that we will only know in the future when that happens. Something that you may have seen several months ago was that the White House and the federal government are no longer going to be using Anthropic, one of the big AI companies. This was announced a few weeks ago, and now it is being implemented, but Governor Newsom of California, of course, announces the first of its kind partnership providing Anthropic tools to state agencies and improving services for Californians. It says right here, "Claude will help state workers with a wide range of tasks, including drafting and summarizing documents, analyzing information, supplementing day-to-day work, and improving services for Californians." And of course, they're getting this at a 50% discount because this is not a small purchase. This is, of course, you know, just an entire state using it for all their workers. That's tens of thousands of people. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing at all. I don't think that companies or governments should ban AI outright. I just think there should be more limitations on it. I mean, we're talking about the government, right? We don't just want the government using it however they want. There should be rules and regulations and laws in place, which, of course, America's really far behind in any type of regulation. And speaking of regulation, it says right here, "US companies face EU AI Act possible August 2026 compliance deadline." That US-based businesses that operate high-risk artificial intelligence systems should be mindful of the August 2nd, 2026 compliance under the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act. So, the EU has come out with a lot of regulation around the use of AI. This was months ago, but they set a deadline for August 2nd, basically saying that if you do not comply with this, you can no longer operate as a business or within the EU, and that is huge. Although yes, they said August, they recently voted to delay it until December 2027 and even further into August of 2028 for sector-specific obligations. So, they're just going to delay this. It's going to take a while. But, the European Union has been known for a lot of regulation, especially in the tech space. So, if nothing else, this is a big wake-up call for a lot of AI companies and how they distribute it across the world because almost all these companies want to be everywhere. They don't just want to be in the US. Now, what happens if these companies just decide not to follow this regulation or these rules, which we have absolutely seen in the past? Uh it says right here, companies can be fined up to 15 million euros or 3% of the company's global annual turnover. That is not a small sum. That's a big amount. I mean, 3% of a company worth billions of dollars can be hundreds of millions. And so, companies are going to take this seriously. For smaller companies, I mean, 15 million years could be all the money that they have. So, I guess it just depends on a case-by-case basis of the severity and how much they're actually going to be fined. I think when it comes to governments using AI and just all these rules and regulations, whether it's within California or the American government or it's the EU and their regulation, it's just that there is nothing that is the same. Right? The American government does things their way, the Chinese government does things their way, the EU is going to do things their way. There isn't a lot of agreement on how these things should be handled. And if I know how the US operates, it's kind of with a loose cannon, right? We just tend to go for things, make a bunch of mistakes, cause harm in a lot of instances, but then over time, we will adopt these regulations. The EU tends to be a lot more proactive where they're saying, "Hey, we know and we've been looking into the potential side effects of these. We're going to catch it early so that it doesn't kind of blow up in our face." Yes, we are going to be behind when it comes to building out AI and all these different things, but we're not going to have a lot of the adverse effects that may happen within the US. So, we will see what happens especially in California when they're rolling out Anthropic to basically everybody. Will there be a lot more issues in California with a lot of people just, you know, replying to AI, writing with AI, doing everything with AI, and nobody actually knows what they're doing? Or will it actually benefit and get things done faster? If I know the government, that's not going to happen. Nothing gets done fast in the government. But, uh it will be interesting to see if they come out with actual data to support any findings whether good or bad. With that being said, that is all we have for this week in tech data and AI. I hope that was helpful. I hope that was interesting to you. If it was, be sure to like and subscribe, and I will see you next week.