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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Meta to Lay Off 10% of Staff in May

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: America’s first commercial nuclear-power projects in a decade break ground. And Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 7% of U.S. workforce. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Meta will lay off

0:39.6

10% of its staff, or roughly 8,000 people next month. In an internal memo viewed by the journal,

0:46.6

the social media giants said the cuts would help streamline its operations and pay for massive

0:51.2

investments in AI. Meta also said it would cancel plans to hire for 6,000 open roles.

0:58.5

A affected employees will be notified on May 20th.

1:01.7

A meta spokesperson declined to comment.

1:04.2

Meta plans to spend up to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year,

1:09.7

as it seeks to build out what it calls personal

1:12.0

superintelligence for its 3.5 billion daily users. America's first commercial nuclear power

1:18.6

projects in a decade have begun construction. A project by Terra Power, a company founded

1:24.2

by Bill Gates, started construction yesterday in Wyoming, another project,

1:28.8

Cairo's power, broke ground last week in Tennessee on a plant that will sell power to Google.

1:33.9

This industry turning point coincides with the biggest jump in electricity demand in a generation,

1:38.9

largely driven by the power needs of AI data centers. Finally, Microsoft is offering long-tenured employees' voluntary buyouts,

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