{"id":1018257,"date":"2026-07-02T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018257"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:06:22","slug":"fear-and-anger-brew-inside-meta-amid-ai-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/fear-and-anger-brew-inside-meta-amid-ai-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and anger brew inside Meta amid AI frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frenzied push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost for Meta, where massive layoffs, employee surveillance and departures have fueled reports of a heated internal climate. <\/p>\n<p>As Meta spends billions annually to build out its AI capabilities, employees at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are increasingly unhappy with their Mark Zuckerberg-led parent company. <\/p>\n<p>Meta employees have weathered frequent layoffs since early 2025, including this spring when the company cut 10 percent of its workforce &#8212; some 8,000 jobs &#8212; and reshuffled another 7,000 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frenzied push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost for Meta, where massive layoffs, employee surveillance and departures have fueled reports of a heated internal climate. As Meta spends billions annually to build out its AI capabilities, employees at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are increasingly unhappy with their Mark Zuckerberg-led parent company. Meta employees have weathered frequent layoffs since early 2025, including this spring when the company cut 10 percent of its workforce &#8212; some 8,000 jobs &#8212; and reshuffled another 7,000 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018258,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018257\/revisions\/1018258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}