{"id":196027,"date":"2026-03-14T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/sweeping-cuts-at-meta-could-see-16000-jobs-lost-as-company-pumps-money-into-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:20:14","slug":"sweeping-cuts-at-meta-could-see-16000-jobs-lost-as-company-pumps-money-into-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/sweeping-cuts-at-meta-could-see-16000-jobs-lost-as-company-pumps-money-into-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping cuts at Meta could see 16,000 jobs lost as company pumps money into AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/meta-job-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-b2938715.html\">Sweeping cuts at Meta could see 16,000 jobs lost as company pumps money into AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/meta-job-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-b2938715.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/meta-job-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-b2938715.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-14 21:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.independent.co.uk\">www.independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Independent is actively covering a wide range of critical issues from reproductive rights to climate change and Big Tech, emphasizing unbiased reporting and fact-based journalism.<\/li>\n<li>Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is reportedly planning to lay off around 16,000 employees, which would be the largest workforce reduction since 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Despite these layoffs, Meta is also investing heavily in artificial intelligence, aiming to spend approximately $600 billion on AI infrastructure by 2028.<\/li>\n<li>Block, a payments company led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, also laid off over 4,000 employees, citing the use of AI to automate work, similar to Meta&#8217;s strategy of using AI to reduce the need for large teams.<\/li>\n<li>Critics, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, argue that some companies might be using AI as a scapegoat for layoffs, a practice termed &#8220;AI-washing,&#8221; even though genuine displacement by AI is also occurring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeping cuts at Meta could see 16,000 jobs lost as company pumps money into AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/02\/09\/15\/REDES_SOCIALES_MENORES_DE_EDAD_22647.jpg?width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-196027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196029,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196027\/revisions\/196029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}