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Meta scales back Reality Labs workforce as AI remains in focus

Meta’s Reality Labs has been bleeding cash for years, accumulating losses exceeding $70 billion since 2021 (including an operating loss of $4.4 billion in Q3 2025), thus enlarging…

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Rogue Meta AI exposes data
CULTURE & POLICY

HP plans nearly 6,000 job cuts through FY28

The ever-rising concerns over AI’s impact on employment gained fresh momentum this week – HP is preparing for one of its most extensive restructurings in years, projecting thousands…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
BUSINESS

Intel plans to lay off over 20% of its workforce: Bloomberg

With an imminent earnings report in, Intel is now gearing up to initiate a fresh round of job cuts this week, which could see more than one-fifth of…

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CULTURE & POLICY

Google trims 10% of managerial staff, CEO Sundar Pichai announces

Google, which has recently been accelerating its AI initiatives with models like Veo 2 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, has now laid off 10% of its managerial staff,…

ASHUTOSH SINGH — 2 MIN READ
BUSINESS

Apple cuts 100 jobs in digital services division

Apple has initiated yet another round of job cuts in its workforce. This time, the reduction was within its digital services division, cutting approximately 100 positions, according to…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
BUSINESS

Intel confirms 1000s to be laid off, to cut costs by nearly $10Bn

Intel has confirmed lay offs in an internal memo. The company announced laying of 15% of its nearly 124,000 strong workforce, which it said, would cut costs by…

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CULTURE & POLICY

Tesla lays off 10% workforce, key execs leave, several departments considerably reduced

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a fresh wave of layoffs at the electric car maker, with 10% of the overall workforce being impacted. The layoffs have also resulted…

GLOBAL STAFF @ THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

YouTube initiates layoffs, cuts 100 jobs

YouTube, the global behemoth in internet video streaming, has decided to reduce its workforce by 100, according to media reports. These maneuvers come as the platform grapples with…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

Google overhauls advertising sales team, lays off hundreds

Google is undergoing another significant restructuring in 2024, this time within its advertising sales division. This initiative, revealed by Philipp Schindler, Google’s Chief Business Officer, involves the layoff…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 3 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

Google is laying off hundreds in fresh rejig, voice assistant, hardware and engineering teams affected

The brutal layoffs that global tech witnessed last year, is dragging itself into this year as well. While Amazon recently announced mass layoffs in its Prime Video and…

GLOBAL STAFF @ THE TECH PORTAL — 1 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

Amazon announces signficant layoffs in Prime Video and Studios divisions

Amazon has unveiled plans for a substantial restructuring, leading to a considerable number of layoffs within its Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios divisions. These layoffs were revealed…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

Unity announces 25% reduction in workforce as a part of “company reset”

In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Unity Software — the company whose gaming engine perhaps underlines all major modern games — declared its intention…

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CULTURE & POLICY

Udaan fires over 100 employees, days after $340Mn fundraise

In a surprise move, Udaan, the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce unicorn, decided to make significant cuts in human capital by laying off 100 to 120 employees which constitutes nearly…

SRIHARI RISHABH — 3 MIN READ
GAMING

ByteDance to axe hundreds in gaming division, shut down Nuverse

TikTok parent ByteDance has now become the latest company to enact layoffs. According to media reports, the powerhouse behind TikTok is set to wind down its gaming arm,…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
A.I.

Amazon restructures Alexa division with fresh layoffs amid AI push

Once again, layoffs are coming to Amazon, and this time, it simply adds to the heightened concerns that AI will take over a slew of tech jobs. The…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

Amazon cuts 180 jobs in its gaming division

Amazon is announcing a fresh round of job cuts. The technology and e-commerce behemoth announced that Amazon Games, the company’s gaming division, has initiated a strategic restructuring effort…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
BUSINESS

Latest round of layoffs begin at Meta, set to be last of three-part job cuts

Meta has initiated a fresh round of layoffs, according to media reports. It seems that the latest batch of job cuts is the final one of the three-part…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
CULTURE & POLICY

Apple to eliminate a small number of corporate retail roles: Report

Apple could eliminate a small number of roles, according to media reports. Bloomberg reports that the iPhone maker is bringing layoffs to its organization (on a small scale),…

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CULTURE & POLICY

GitHub lays off engineering team in India

Adding further to the already dreadful layoff situation in the global tech sector, popular developer platform GitHub, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India. The…

GLOBAL STAFF @ THE TECH PORTAL — 1 MIN READ
NEWS

Meta announces additional 10,000 job cuts in second round of layoffs

Months after it laid off nearly 11,000 employees, world’s largest social media company Meta, has announced its plans to cull its workforce by an additional 10,000. Roles pending…

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INTERNET

Y Combinator cuts jobs by 20%, to cut down on late-stage investments

Startup-accelerator Y Combinator is joining the layoff brigade if the latest development is any indicator. On the heels of two major banking failures in the US – in…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ

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