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Duolingo’s “IA-SO-STH” announces the crisis in IA jobs, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, the drop in independent income, more– On Monday, April 29, Luis von Ahn, CEO billionaire of the popular linguistic learning application Duolingo…
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