Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees on May 20 and reassigned about 7,000 more to newly created AI teams — part of a wave of restructurings tied, at least publicly, to AI.
When companies blame AI for layoffs, what are they actually saying?
Meta cut 8,000 jobs and reassigned 7,000 more to AI teams. The number being passed around in headlines — 54,694 — tells a smaller, stranger story than it looks.
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