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Meta To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Today As AI Pivot Accelerates Meta Platforms is laying off a few hundred employees today as its workforce restructuring continues, following years of terrible metaverse bets and overhiring during the Covid era. Reports of another round of layoffs surfaced earlier this month, and just last week, Meta shut down Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality social network for Quest headsets. The Information reports that a few hundred employees will be let go today as part of the company's effort to reposition itself in the AI...

Vance Reportedly Questions Pentagon's Rosy Assessment Of Iran War Vice President JD Vance is reportedly questioning assessments from the Department of War about the effectiveness of the US military campaign against Iran. According to two senior White House officials cited by The Atlantic, Vance has expressed skepticism about recent Pentagon estimates on the depletion of US munitions since the launch of Operation Epic Fury. A report released last week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found the Pentagon used roughly half of its stockpiles of advanced interceptors and standoff...

Democrats Will Try Not To Act Like Children During Trump's State Of The Union Address President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, and according to reports, many seats will be empty. Earlier this month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gave his caucus its marching orders in a closed-door meeting: sit in the chamber with "silent defiance" or don’t attend.  "The two options that are in front of us in our House is to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend, and send a...