Meta Axes 8,000 Workers As Zuckerberg Admits AI Is Watching, Replacing Labor — “Translation: We’re watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose.”
Welcome to another day of corporate America hemorrhaging engineers and other white-collar workers with insurmountable student debt as AI adoption accelerates. This era will likely be remembered in history as the great “white-collar purge,” and the response will be continued hatred of data centers.
We’ve been covering for weeks that today is D-Day for Meta Platforms employees, who have finally learned their employment fate at the company that owns Facebook and Instagram.
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AI Purge Accelerates: Intuit Reportedly Slashing 17% Of Workforce
Intuit, the company that owns TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp, is reportedly preparing to lay off a staggering 17% of its workforce according to Reuters, which cites an internal memo. Bloomberg data shows Intuit’s total workforce was around 18,200 in mid-2025. If those figures are still accurate, the layoffs could affect upwards of 3,000 employees.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ai-purge-accelerates-intuit-reportedly-slashing-17-workforce
Well — the FIRST batch of firees have learned their fate …..