Meta employees react to pending job cuts: '28 days of hell'

Tech Insider : Business, Travel
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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  • Meta told staff on Thursday that it planned to eliminate 10% of its workforce.
  • Inside the company, employees are bracing for weeks of limbo as they wait to find out who will be cut.
  • Meta employees responded internally with a mixture of questions, concerns, and jokes.

Welcome to "28 days of hell."

Big Tech's AI data centers are pushing the power grid to its limits — and one state is feeling it the most

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Google data center Texas
Power demand in Texas could quadruple by 2032, driven by data centers seeking to connect to the grid.

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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to thousands of longtime US employees

Tech Insider : Business
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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A new fault line has emerged inside Google: The Claude haves and have-nots

Tech Insider : Business
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis speaks at the World Economic Forum
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.

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California Treasurer Fiona Ma tied to Chinese school cited in scathing audit

Tech Insider : Politics, Politics, Business
Fiona Ma
California Treasurer Fiona Ma is running for lieutenant governor.

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A talent CEO says data centers are a 'massive opportunity' for office workers to pivot mid-career

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Technology
Carrie Charles Broadstaff
Carrie Charles is the CEO of Broadstaff, a recruiting and staffing agency.

Carrie Charles

OpenAI loses 3 top executives as it cuts back on 'side quests'

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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  • OpenAI lost three executives on Friday.
  • Under applications CEO Fidji Simo, OpenAI has shifted focus by cutting side projects.
  • Anthropic has been gaining traction and challenging OpenAI's market position.

OpenAI lost three top executives on Friday.

Deloitte is cutting back on benefits for some US workers

Tech Insider : Business, Style

Deloitte US will cut benefits for some workers, according to internal documents seen by Business Insider.

Elon Musk's xAI plans to supply AI computing power to coding startup Cursor

Tech Insider : Technology, Business, Style
Elon Musk and Michael Truell
xAI CEO Elon Musk and Cursor CEO Michael Truell.

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Maine is poised to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.

Tech Insider : Politics, Economy, Business
Active servers are seen at a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025.
The data center infrastructure boom has taken off across the country as it meets local resistance.

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