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Meta to cut 10% of staff as it redirects engineers to AI projects
Meta cuts roughly 10% of its workforce and reassigns over 1,000 engineers to AI development, with layoffs scheduled for 20 May.
Wired: As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and Meta forcibly moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build GenAI models — Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff.
WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees …
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