The job cuts could affect around 10 percent of Meta’s workforce, or around 8,000 employees, according to Reuters. This is reportedly the first of two waves of layoffs planned for this year, and follows an earlier report from Reuters that suggests Meta could cut as much as 20 percent of its workforce.
Iron Galaxy Studios, which has also helped support and port dozens of games, including BioShock Infinite, Diablo III, and The Last of Us Part I, is cutting around 90 employees, according to Kotaku.
The layoffs follow last year’s job cuts at Iron Galaxy Studios, and come as the developer works to “adapt to the climate of the video game industry,” according to a post on LinkedIn.
SimpleClosure, a startup that helps struggling companies shut down, launched a new tool for businesses that want to sell off old code, Slack messages, emails, and workspace information to data-hungry AI companies, as reported by Forbes:
The demand for this real-world enterprise data has spurred on a new industry of ‘reinforcement learning gyms,’ which specialize in using defunct company data to build simulated environments where AI agents can practice navigating real workplaces.
Along with an upgraded Android CLI, Google is launching a new Android skills GitHub repository and an Android Knowledge base, which can provide AI agents with the information and resources they need to perform coding tasks.
