Microsoft and Meta, the company behind Instagram and WhatsApp, are planning to make significant cuts to their respective workforces as spending on artificial intelligence (AI) finds a new high gear.

Even in the turbulent market of 2026, going from “AI winner” to “AI loser” status in six months seems excessive.

Meta (META) on Thursday became the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs as the ballooning costs of the AI build-out and efficiencies continue to hit workers in the industry. The company said it ...

Benjamin Phillips, 26, always dreamed of working at Microsoft in a gaming role. He received more than 50 rejections and used LinkedIn to try to land a role. After 15 months of rejections, he got two ...

Kun Chen, an engineer, said he used a test to decide to leave Microsoft for Meta. To see if he was still growing, he asked himself what he did this month that he couldn't do the month prior. He said ...

Two of the world's biggest tech companies are shrinking their headcounts — Meta through layoffs, Microsoft through buyouts — as the AI spending race heats up. Meta is cutting roughly 8,000 jobs or ...

Meta is laying off about 8,000 workers, or about 10% of its workforce, the company said Thursday as it continues to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-expert ...

A techie's professional journey has caught social media's attention they landed a Rs 1.2 crore package at Microsoft despite a string of early setbacks. In a post titled “From IIT reject to Microsoft,” ...

Facebook's parent company said it would slash 10% of its workforce, while Microsoft is offering an early retirement scheme. The cuts come as both tech giants make massive investments in AI. Social ...

As companies like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft publicly announce workforce reductions amid heavy AI investment, workers are scrambling to understand which careers might soon disappear and be outsourced ...

A wave of layoffs shakes Microsoft. The company has announced the elimination of thousands of jobs, directly impacting the Xbox division. Microsoft has ordered a new round of layoffs, one of the ...

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