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Key Takeaways Meta is reportedly laying off about 600 employees in its artificial intelligence division amid an ongoing reorganization, according to a report from Axios. The company is still hiring for other roles in the unit, and encouraging affected employees to apply for other roles internally. Booming profits and demand for AI hasn’t stopped Meta (META) from laying off employees.  …

Nestlé will lay off 16,000 employees worldwide as recently-appointed CEO Philipp Navratil looks to turn around the world’s largest food company.  In a bid to cut costs, Nestlé will slash 12,000 white-collar jobs along with an additional 4,000 manufacturing and supply-chain positions, reducing 6% of its global workforce over the next two years, the company announced Thursday. Some white-collar roles …

Judge blocks Trump admin from laying off federal workers during government shutdown  Politico Trump Administration Live Updates: President Suggests Ground Strikes on Venezuela Could Be Next  The New York Times Judge halts Trump’s planned layoffs of federal workers during government shutdown, calling them unlawful  CNN Court blocks Trump administration’s latest mass layoffs for federal employees  Federal News Network Trump admin federal job cuts likely …

A swathe of upcoming Pokémon game projects have seemingly been detailed online, via the latest release of material originating from the so-called “Teraleak” of data hacked from the servers of series developer Game Freak. The cache of information, which includes development plans, concept art and early screenshots, was revealed overnight following the disclosure yesterday of data obtained in the hack …

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown  The Washington Post Trump Live Updates: Federal Layoffs, China Tariffs and More  The New York Times Vought sounds layoff siren: ‘The RIFs have begun’  Politico Trump administration says firings of government workers has begun  BBC OMB says ‘substantial’ federal employee layoffs have begun  Federal News Network Source link

Hyper Light Breaker, 3D prequel to action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter, won’t make it out of early access. Developers Heart Machine have announced that its development is ending, with an unspecified number of layoffs at the studio having been announced at the same time. It’s a depressingly rapid downward trajectory for the follow-up to a game which generally received strong and …

Funcom, the Tencent-owned company behind the survival MMO Dune: Awakening, is making some major changes, including laying off staff and shutting down Metal: Hellsinger developer The Outsiders. Dune: Awakening had a promising launch, selling a million copies and becoming the company’s “fastest selling game ever” less than two weeks after its June release. And in a statement about the layoffs …

Judge blocks Kari Lake from laying off over 500 Voice of America staffers  The Washington Post Judge suspends Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of Voice of America jobs  CNN Judge pauses cuts to US Agency for Global Media  Politico Read: Judge pauses Trump administration’s VOA cuts in scathing order  Axios Judge Reinstates Over 500 Voice of America Journalists and Staff  The New York Times …

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports. “We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration and creativity,” a spokesperson for the studio’s publisher and owner 2K told Engadget. The layoffs follow turmoil …

Virtuos, the studio that developed The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off seven percent of its staff, or around 270 employees. Gauthier Andres, a reporter and co-founder at Origami, was first to report the news, which the studio later confirmed. Virtuos has provided support on a number of large game projects — including a recent patch for Cyberpunk …