META CUTS 10% WORKFORCE AS MORALE TANKS
Meta will lay off approximately 10% of its staff on May 20, with company morale already declining ahead of the cuts. The company has forcibly reassigned over 1,000 engineers to an AI unit focused on building generative AI models.
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