{"id":998529,"date":"2026-03-16T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998529"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:34:16","slug":"meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerbergs-tech-firm-plans-to-cut-nearly-16000-jobs-as-ai-costs-mount-says-report-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerbergs-tech-firm-plans-to-cut-nearly-16000-jobs-as-ai-costs-mount-says-report-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta layoffs: Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s tech firm plans to cut nearly 16,000 jobs as AI costs mount, says report \u2014 what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers, according to a Reuters report.<\/p>\n<p>However, no date has been set for these cuts, and the magnitude has not been finalised, Reuters was told by sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers, according to a Reuters report. However, no date has been set for these cuts, and the magnitude has not been finalised, Reuters was told by sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998529","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}