An attacker took over Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI support assistant to add an email and issue a password reset — no phishing, no breach. The damage was small. The mechanism is the warning.
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week its Q1 revenue grew 34% and beat estimates. Meta confirmed 8,000 cuts on $201B in 2025 revenue. The layoffs are real; 'AI did it' is part of the answer, not the whole one.
Meta will cut 8,000 jobs May 20 while pouring tens of billions more into AI. The 'AI replaced them' headline is neater than what the company actually said.
Meta is planning layoffs that could affect up to 20% of its 78,865 employees — roughly 15,800 people — as AI infrastructure costs consume an ever-larger share of revenue.