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As Meta Cuts 10%, Zuckerberg Warns: 'Success Isn't a Given'

Company shifts thousands into AI roles, promises no more 2026 cuts

(Newser) - Meta just axed about a tenth of its staff, and Mark Zuckerberg is pitching the move as both a reset and a bet on artificial intelligence. In a companywide memo on Wednesday, the CEO said that roughly 8,000 employees are being let go and about 6,000 open roles...

Ahead of Mass Layoffs, Meta Shifts 7K Workers to AI

Restructuring follows massive spending on AI infrastructure, all ahead of looming staff cuts

(Newser) - Meta is pulling thousands of staffers into its AI future, all while cutting thousands more. In a Monday memo, HR chief Janelle Gale told employees that about 7,000 workers will be reassigned into four newly created artificial intelligence groups aimed at building tools and apps using "AI native...

Major Publishers Sue Meta Over AI Training

Suit alleges use of pirated books to train Llama models, with Zuckerberg's approval

(Newser) - Meta is facing a fresh legal barrage over how it built its AI. Five major publishers—Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage—along with novelist Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan accusing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of mass copyright infringement tied to...

Behold, Robotic Dogs With Musk, Zuck, Bezos Heads

Beeple's latest creations roam around Berlin museum pooping art in new installation

(Newser) - Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures—including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso—can be seen roaming around a Berlin museum, occasionally "pooping" printed images of their surroundings which they've captured with integrated cameras. The animals are part of...

Meta Shares 'Unwelcome News' With Its Employees

10% of the staff will go

(Newser) - Meta is shrinking its payroll as it doubles down on artificial intelligence. The parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp plans to cut about 10% of its staff—roughly 8,000 jobs—and eliminate another 6,000 open positions, per an internal memo to employees confirmed by the company. In that...

Meta Monitors Staff Activity Across Major Sites to Train AI

Internal tool called Model Capability Initiative captures staff activity on third-party platforms

(Newser) - Meta's push to sharpen its AI tools now includes watching how its own employees use the internet, down to their clicks and keystrokes. Internal messages seen by CNBC show that the social media company is logging staffers' activity on hundreds of sites and apps via a tool called the...

At Bezos' Retreat, Billionaires Live Beyond Consequences

'A certain stratum of billionaires has effectively exited the 'moral universe,'' writes Noah Hawley

(Newser) - Jeff Bezos' exclusive "Campfire" retreat looks less like a brainstorming salon for world-changing ideas and more like a window into what happens when wealth floats above consequences, writes Noah Hawley in the Atlantic . Invited in 2018 as Amazon courted his TV business, Hawley joined 80 or so boldface names—...

Meta Is Building an Avatar of Zuckerberg to Meet With Staff

Financial Times reports on AI project to create a 3D version of the CEO

(Newser) - Meta employees may soon get face time with Mark Zuckerberg—though without the flesh-and-bones Mark. The Financial Times reports the company is building a 3D avatar of its CEO that is powered by AI and meant to speak with staffers. Zuckerberg is reportedly involved in training and testing the avatar,...

Op-Ed: Meta's Court Loss May Backfire in a Big Way

Techdirt essay argues that new legal strategy threatens future of the open internet

(Newser) - In an essay at Techdirt , Mike Masnick makes clear he thinks Meta "is a terrible company" that has prioritized profit over user safety. You might expect, then, that he would be cheering this week's landmark court verdict holding Mark Zuckerberg's company liable for "enabling child exploitation,...

Meta Cuts 700 More Jobs
Meta Cuts 700 More Jobs
Mar 25, 2026 4:20 PM CDT

Meta Cuts 700 More Jobs

Layoffs hit Reality Labs as Meta doubles down on AI investments

(Newser) - It's been a rough week for Meta in court, and a mixed one for its employees: The company has announced job cuts for some workers and massive potential executive payouts for others. The company shed about 700 roles, largely in its Reality Labs division, plus some recruiting, sales, and...

Maybe They Shouldn't Have Named Meta After Metaverse

Social media giant is quietly winding down its virtual reality world, pivoting to artificial intelligence instead

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg's once-grand virtual kingdom is looking more like a cul-de-sac these days. Five years after he rechristened Facebook as Meta and declared the "metaverse" as the company's future, Meta is sharply scaling back its virtual reality ambitions and shifting its weight to artificial intelligence. The New ...

Elon Musk Is Richest Person Alive—by $582B

Musk's $839B fortune surges amid AI-fueled market boom

(Newser) - Elon Musk isn't just leading the billionaire pack—he's lapping the field. For the second straight year, Musk sits atop Forbes' World's Billionaires list , this time with an estimated net worth of $839 billion, the highest figure the magazine has ever recorded. Forbes credits a roughly $500...

Zuckerberg Sets Record With 'Billionaire Bunker' Buy

$170M Indian Creek purchase marks new Miami-Dade record

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg just set a new bar for Miami real estate. The Meta CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have shelled out $170 million for a not-yet-finished limestone mega-mansion on Indian Creek, the exclusive private island locals call the "Billionaire Bunker," reports the Wall Street Journal . The price...

AMD's Rivalry With Nvidia Just Took a Turn, Thanks to Meta

Social media giant secures AMD's custom MI450 chips to diversify its AI infrastructure

(Newser) - Meta just inked a chip-buying deal so big it could end up owning a chunk of its supplier. The social media giant agreed to purchase enough of Advanced Micro Devices' new MI450 AI chips to juice up data centers using up to 6 gigawatts of computing capacity over five years,...

Zuckerberg Team Angers Judge With AI Glasses

She threatens to hold them in contempt if the devices recorded anything

(Newser) - Meta's smart glasses got a courtroom reality check this week. A Los Angeles judge sharply warned members of Mark Zuckerberg's team on Wednesday after they showed up to a high-profile trial wearing the camera-equipped eyewear, reports CBS News . "The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if...

Zuckerberg Defends Meta in Landmark Trial

CEO denies pushing screen-time goals or targeting young children

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg spent hours on the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday insisting he never ordered Meta to keep users—especially kids—hooked on its apps, even as lawyers projected his own emails on a screen a few feet away. The Meta CEO was grilled in a landmark trial...

TikTok Settles Ahead of Looming Youth Addiction Trial

Meta, YouTube are in the hot seat at trial amid accusations they deliberately harm kids

(Newser) - TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff's attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies—along with Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube—facing claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. A...

Snap Avoids First Big Tech Addiction Trial

Company settles suit, leaving Meta, YouTube, TikTok to defend against alleged harms

(Newser) - Snap has avoided the witness stand in the first in a series of trials over alleged social media addiction. The company has struck a deal to resolve a high-stakes lawsuit that claimed its products were intentionally designed to keep teens endlessly engaged, days before the case moved to trial, per...

The Year's First Big Tech Layoffs Have Arrived

Meta axes more than 1K in shift away from the Metaverse

(Newser) - Meta is dialing back its virtual world and betting big on something you can actually wear on your face. The company is cutting more than 1,000 jobs in its Reality Labs division, the group behind its metaverse push. The move, disclosed in an internal post from CTO Andrew Bosworth...

Beeple's New Creation Turns Heads at Art Basel

Robot canines with tech mogul faces dispense NFT certificates

(Newser) - Robot dogs with the faces of tech giants are roaming Art Basel Miami Beach, thanks to digital artist Beeple's latest installation, "Regular Animals (2025)." Part of the new Zero 10 digital art section, the display features canines with hyper-realistic heads depicting figures like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,...

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