In a memo sent to staff, Meta said it intends to lay off 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an attempt to boost efficiency and offset its significant spending on AI, Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner reports. The company said the cuts will occur on May 20, adding that it won’t hire workers for 6,000 open roles that it had previously intended to fill, the author notes.
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