Meta is reportedly considering layoffs affecting 20% or more of its approximately 79,000-person workforce, with company attribution to offsetting costs of aggressive AI infrastructure spending and AI-related acquisitions and hiring. A Meta spokesperson dismissed the report as speculative. The announcement joins a wave of tech layoffs attributed to AI automation, though some commentators and executives have questioned whether such reductions are substantive efficiency moves or rebranding of other issues such as post-pandemic over-hiring.
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