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In a major restructuring move, Meta Platforms has announced plans to eliminate around 600 roles from its Superintelligence Labs (MSL) division. The decision marks one of the most significant reorganizations within Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) operations this year and reflects a broader industry shift toward efficiency, focus, and resource optimization....

In a drastic move reflecting the rise of artificial intelligence in business, Fiverr International Ltd., a popular global online marketplace for freelance tasks and services, has laid off 250 workers, approximately 30% of its workforce worldwide. The company also announced it is becoming an “AI-first” company, a move management says...

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has officially laid off hundreds of workers: over 500 employees, or roughly one-third of those whose job was to train the firm’s signature chatbot, Grok.The shake-up is one of the largest at the ten-year-old company and indicates a fundamental about-face in strategy for how xAI...

In a major restructuring, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, dismissed at least 500 employees in its data labeling division. The company’s largest team, they were helping train Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot that processes large quantities of previously unstructured data into labeled and categorized datasets needed to develop models. Affected...

By AI Latest Byte News Desk | 20 Jul, 2025 Microsoft’s AI Revolution: At What Human Cost? Microsoft has positioned itself firmly at the top of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution over the past few years, investing billions of dollars into infrastructure, partnerships, and product innovation. However, the tech giant’s...

Scale AI Lays Off 14% of Staff, With Data-Labeling Division Hardest Hit In a sign of just how quickly artificial intelligence startups in emerging markets can go from innovation to disruption, Scale AI, a leading provider of data infrastructure for AI, has laid off 14% of its staff. The cuts,...