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May 14, 2026 • 12 min read

Meta Mined Workers' Keystrokes Before Firing 8,000

Meta rolled out the Model Capability Initiative in late April, installing software that captures keystrokes, clicks, and screenshots across hundreds of apps on every US work laptop. The same week, the company announced 8,000 layoffs effective May 20. On May 12, workers distributed flyers calling the offices an "Employee Data Extraction Factory" and started signing an NLRA petition. European employees were exempt, which is the loudest part of the whole story.

#Meta#employee surveillance#AI training
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May 9, 2026 • 11 min read

55% of Bosses Regret AI Layoffs. Zuckerberg Doesn't.

Two AI layoff waves are happening at once and they look identical from the outside. Hyperscalers are firing tens of thousands of workers to fund $725 billion in chip buys. Mid-market firms that fired humans to deploy AI are quietly hiring them back. Forrester and Orgvue both put the regret rate at 55%. Klarna already reversed. Zuckerberg won't.

#AI#Layoffs#Capex
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Apr 25, 2026 • 11 min read

Meta Cut 8,000 People to Spend $135 Billion on AI

On Wednesday, Meta's HR head sent a memo cutting 8,000 jobs and closing 6,000 more roles. The same week, the company guided 2026 capital spending to $115 to $135 billion, nearly double last year. The Year of Efficiency is back, and this time it is buying GPUs, not Metaverse headsets.

#Meta#Layoffs#AI
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Apr 17, 2026 • 10 min read

Oracle Fired 30,000 for Data Centers It Can't Finish

Oracle fired 30,000 workers via a 6 AM email to fund a $50 billion AI data center buildout. With $124.7 billion in debt, negative $24.7 billion free cash flow, and OpenAI data centers delayed to 2028, the company is running a Nortel-grade bet on demand it may never deliver fast enough to service.

#Oracle#AI#Data Centers
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Feb 23, 2026 • 8 min read

The AI Layoff Smokescreen: CEO Gaslighting Exposed

The mainstream press is framing the massive January 2026 job cuts as the beginning of the great AI replacement. They are wrong. A deep dive into the labor data reveals that CEOs are using artificial intelligence as a convenient scapegoat to mask profound management failures, economic restructuring, and the hangover of zero-interest-rate overhiring.

#AI#Layoffs#Corporate Strategy