Observer | Mark Zuckerberg Signals Leaner Future While Meta Doubles Down on A.I. Spending by Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a forthcoming 10 percent workforce reduction—about 8,000 jobs—while the company redirects spending toward artificial‑intelligence initiatives. In the first‑quarter earnings call he said smaller, faster teams can achieve in a week what once required dozens of months, and that Meta will “streamline our teams” as it pursues artificial general intelligence. Meta raised its 2026 capital‑expenditure outlook to $125‑$145 billion to fund its Meta Superintelligence Labs and aggressive AI‑talent hiring, driving a 35 percent jump in quarterly expenses. Despite beating revenue expectations—$56.3 billion, up 33 percent year over year—shares fell as daily‑active‑user growth missed forecasts. The cuts mirror a broader tech‑industry shift, with companies such as Block, Snap and Microsoft also trimming staff to prioritize AI‑driven efficiencies.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/mark-zuckerberg-meta-earnings-cuts-ai/

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TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public. “Divine, as this Vine reboot is called, offers access to an archive of roughly 500,000 Vine videos, restored from a backup of the original service, and allows creators to post new Vines once again.”

Divine wants to revive Vine without AI, but can nostalgia beat TikTok?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/divine-vine-ai-tiktok/

Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-using-ai-to-be-everywhere-at-once/

"Tech CEOs think AI will let them be everywhere at once. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control. …

They want a version of AI that amplifies and entrenches their individual perspectives. At last, a perfectly tech-bro substitute for human-to-human communication."

~ Miles Klee

#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Zuckerberg #JackDorsey #TechBros #megalomania

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-using-ai-to-be-everywhere-at-once/

Hahahahahaha all 6000 will report to him. Why are so many of these guys making Elon Musk kind of promises?

https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3mjh5lt3sh22j

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All Content from Business Insider | Type softly and carry a big stick by Zak Jason

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In February, Block CEO Jack Dorsey wrote a letter in such a gentle whisper that he almost made you forget he was announcing some of the biggest layoffs in recent history. "i'll be straight about what's happening," he wrote to the 4,000 people, or 40% of his fintech company, he had just axed. "i'm grateful to you, and i'm sorry to put you through this." He wrote the entire 600-word missive in the new language of power, lowercase.

As tech executives amass more influence on humanity, "type softly and carry a big stick" has become the unspoken communications mantra among many of them. Dorsey has been up on lowercase since his first post on Twitter, now X, in 2006: "just setting up my twittr." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman abandons capital letters with abandon. After he was fired and before he was rehired in 2023, for example, Altman texted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a draft of a statement they could jointly release: "how about: satya and my top priority remains to save openai." Other practitioners of lowercase include Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and LinkedInfluencers everywhere.

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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/lowercase-typing-altman-dorsey-block-openai-gen-z-2026-4

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