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Topic: layoffs

Amazon’s 14k layoffs worldwide show how AI is coming for India

As the economy struggles to move from lower-middle to higher-middle income, AI is threatening its biggest advantage: the youth bulge it enjoys against other countries that are rapidly aging.

Meta to carry out company-wide layoff next week, expedite hiring of machine learning engineers

According to Meta's Head of People Janelle Gale post, notices will go out to employees losing their jobs starting at 5 am local time Monday in most countries, including in the US.

SpiceJet says it’s adopting measures to reduce workforce as part of its cost-cutting strategy

According to an ET report, the cash-strapped airline will lay off around 15% of its workforce. However, SpiceJet is yet to confirm the number of jobs being cut.

Paytm switches to AI-powered automations, to save ’10-15% in employee costs’

The company which introduced India to mobile payments is building an India-scale AI system to help financial institutions capture possible risks and frauds in the sector.

India’s tech layoffs come at a social cost but this is how markets function

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

135-yr-old National Geographic magazine lays off its last 19 staff writers, may go off newsstands

This is the second round of layoffs in the past nine months, and the fourth since the magazine saw a series of ownership changes.

The India tech layoffs story isn’t all gloom and doom. But there’s a ‘40-40 problem’

In India, there is life after layoffs — even if it is in WhatsApp groups and LinkedIn, and in start-ups such as Koo.

Facebook owner Meta slashes business teams in final round of layoffs

Meta's layoffs followed months of waning revenue growth amid high inflation and a digital ad pullback from the pandemic e-commerce boom.

Dunzo secures $75 million funding via convertible notes, fires 30% of its workforce, reports ET

The layoffs, which will affect over 300 workers, are part of a rejig announced by founder and CEO Kabeer Biswas, the report stated, citing several people aware of the matter.

Netflix restructures film group to increase output ensuring quality content, reports Bloomberg

As part of restructuring, the video streaming service will combine small and midsize picture productions units, resulting in a few job cuts, the report said.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.