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Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notified early in their own time zones on the same day. The cuts implement the 10%-workforce-reduction […]

After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal that would give rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and others, free […]

Meta is building the most expensive single piece of private infrastructure in American history. Hyperion, the company’s AI data centre campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, now carries a projected cost of more than $200 billion, a figure that has grown steadily since the project was first announced at $10 billion in December 2024. The campus […]

Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigning”. Meta Platforms is reassigning 7,000 workers to new artificial-intelligence-focused jobs as part of a broad corporate restructuring, […]

Meta will begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs on 20 May, the largest single round of layoffs the company has undertaken since its 2023 restructuring, in a move that lays bare the scale of Mark Zuckerberg’s bet that artificial intelligence infrastructure is worth more than the people it replaces. The company is also cancelling 6,000 open […]