{"id":219089,"date":"2026-05-23T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/inside-the-bloodletting-at-meta-as-mark-zuckerberg-pivots-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:55:21","slug":"inside-the-bloodletting-at-meta-as-mark-zuckerberg-pivots-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/inside-the-bloodletting-at-meta-as-mark-zuckerberg-pivots-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the bloodletting at Meta as Mark Zuckerberg pivots to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/technology\/article\/meta-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-3tsqds6pm\">Inside the bloodletting at Meta as Mark Zuckerberg pivots to AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/technology\/article\/meta-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-3tsqds6pm\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/technology\/article\/meta-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-3tsqds6pm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-23 08:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thetimes.com\">www.thetimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dean Hogarth, a top performer at Meta, was unexpectedly made redundant as part of a company-wide restructuring that eliminated 10% of the workforce.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Zuckerberg is leading a significant pivot towards AI, with Meta spending billions on AI infrastructure and planning to invest even more in the future to achieve &#8220;superintelligence&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Meta employees opposed a data-tracking program used to train AI models, highlighting concerns about privacy and potential job replacement by AI.<\/li>\n<li>Zuckerberg&#8217;s strategic shift towards AI comes after previous pivots in the company&#8217;s focus, such as the failed metaverse project.<\/li>\n<li>California Governor Gavin Newsom has urged a reimagination of the workforce system to prepare for the AI-driven disruptions.<\/li>\n<li>Large companies around the world, including Meta, Block, Oracle and Snap, have laid off thousands of employees to integrate AI into their operations.<\/li>\n<li>The trend of AI driving workforce reductions is reflected in Meta\u2019s profitability, which has grown significantly with fewer employees, showing the efficiency gains from AI. <\/li>\n<li>Industry figures, including Tom Blomfield and Eric Schmidt, emphasize the necessity of embracing AI, but acknowledge the fear and disruption it will cause among jobs and employment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the bloodletting at Meta as Mark Zuckerberg pivots to AI https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/technology\/article\/meta-job-cuts-artificial-intelligence-3tsqds6pm Publish Date: 2026-05-23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/imageserver\/image\/79b53467-9d45-4155-8b7b-6ebb3ea0c236.jpg?strip=all&format=webp&crop=6545px%2C3681px%2C0px%2C341px&resize=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219089"}],"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=219089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219091,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219089\/revisions\/219091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}