Duolingo CEO admits his controversial AI memo ‘did not give enough context’ and insists the company never laid off full-time employees

Billionaire Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn has a message for his employees: he doesn’t want to lay them off. After receiving backlash this April for a staff memo posted on LinkedIn detailing the company’s “AI first” strategy, the tech leader clarified that the $16.8 billion language app doesn’t plan to…