TNB Tech Minute: Meta Begins Laying Off Thousands of Employees to Offset AI Costs
WSJ Tech News Briefing
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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| 0:32.6 | Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, May 20th. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.3 | Meta Platforms began laying off thousands of employees today and is reassigning thousands of others to AI-focused roles. That's according to an internal |
| 0:43.6 | memo and people familiar with the matter. The company's chief people officer told staff last |
| 0:48.7 | month that Meta planned to lay off about 10% of staff, about 8,000 employees, and that the company |
| 0:54.1 | would cancel plans to hire for about 6,000 employees, and that the company would cancel plans to |
| 0:55.1 | hire for about 6,000 open roles. Meta executives have said the job cuts are meant to offset its |
| 1:01.0 | increasing spending on AI infrastructure. It plans up to $145 billion in capital expenditures this year, |
| 1:07.8 | largely to build out AI data centers. We exclusively report that Bristol-Myers |
| 1:12.8 | Squibb is bringing Anthropics Claude Chatbot to more than 30,000 of its employees. The deal, |
| 1:18.3 | which the companies will announce today, deepens the biopharmaceuticals giant's use of AI for |
| 1:22.9 | functions like research, clinical development, and corporate uses. It also underscores Anthropics' commitment |
| 1:28.6 | to the life sciences industry as it continues to pursue enterprise clients. Bristol Myers says it is |
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