{"id":205861,"date":"2026-04-25T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:15:11","slug":"us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech giants companies plan large job cuts as artificial intelligence costs rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weeklyblitz.net\/2026\/04\/26\/us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise\/\">US tech giants companies plan large job cuts as artificial intelligence costs rise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weeklyblitz.net\/2026\/04\/26\/us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise\/\">https:\/\/weeklyblitz.net\/2026\/04\/26\/us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-25 14:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"weeklyblitz.net\">weeklyblitz.net<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major U.S. tech companies Meta and Microsoft plan significant job cuts due to rising costs associated with heavy investments in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.<\/li>\n<li>Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is expected to cut around 10% of its workforce, equivalent to approximately 8,000 jobs, and has also decided not to fill around 6,000 open positions.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft is taking a different approach by offering voluntary exit packages instead of direct layoffs, potentially affecting over 8,000 long-term employees.<\/li>\n<li>Both companies are heavily investing in AI to drive future growth, but these investments come with high operational and maintenance costs, leading to the need to cut costs elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>The AI-driven job cuts reflect a broader industry trend where automation and technology shifts lead to reduced or restructured roles.<\/li>\n<li>Public concern is increasing regarding the pace of AI development and the lack of government plans to protect workers affected by these technological changes.<\/li>\n<li>The actions of these leading tech companies may influence other industry players and highlight the complex balance between advancing technology and sustaining employment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US tech giants companies plan large job cuts as artificial intelligence costs rise https:\/\/weeklyblitz.net\/2026\/04\/26\/us-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/weeklyblitz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-tech-giants-companies-plan-large-job-cuts-as-artificial-intelligence-costs-rise-600x337.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-205861","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\/205861"}],"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=205861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205863,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205861\/revisions\/205863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}