{"id":51185,"date":"2026-04-23T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meta-says-it-will-cut-8000-jobs-as-ai-spending-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:08:35","slug":"meta-says-it-will-cut-8000-jobs-as-ai-spending-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meta-says-it-will-cut-8000-jobs-as-ai-spending-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says it will cut 8,000 jobs as AI spending grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">A key reason for the layoffs is Meta&#8217;s <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cde5y2x51y8o\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\">increased spending<\/a> in other areas of the company, including AI, for which it will this year spend $135bn (\u00a3100bn). This is roughly equal to the amount it has spent on AI in the previous three years combined, according to a person who viewed the memo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/crm1y89vek8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key reason for the layoffs is Meta&#8217;s increased spending in other areas of the company, including AI, for which it will this year spend $135bn (\u00a3100bn). This is roughly equal to the amount it has spent on AI in the previous three years combined, according to a person who viewed the memo. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[724,1529,771,949,2052],"class_list":["post-51185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-cut","tag-grows","tag-jobs","tag-meta","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51187,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions\/51187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}