{"id":226336,"date":"2026-05-16T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226336"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:56:24","slug":"first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226336","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Microsoft and Meta cut thousands of staff as they bet big on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta to lay off 10% of its staff and Microsoft to offer retirement to 7% of US workforce. Plus, Iron Maiden at 50Good morning.Meta and Microsoft are cutting thousands of employees as they bet big on AI and executives claim that the technology is meeting productivity needs.What have they said about AI&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/24\/first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta to lay off 10% of its staff and Microsoft to offer retirement to 7%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226336-first-thing-microsoft-and-meta-cut-thousands-of-staff-as-they-bet-big-on-ai.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}