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Meta is cutting eight thousand jobs as CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on artificial intelligence. The company is redirecting significant resources toward AI development, signaling that even one of the world's largest tech employers sees the technology as a reason to shrink its human workforce, not expand it.
That AI push comes with a cost that goes beyond pink slips. A new report finds eleven planned data centers connected to OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft could collectively produce more greenhouse gases than the entire nation of Morocco. It's a stark reminder that the infrastructure behind our AI ambitions has a very real environmental footprint.
And in a development worth watching for developers and crypto builders alike, Microsoft-backed Space and Time has launched an AI-powered app builder on Base. The no-code platform lets users deploy on-chain applications simply by writing a prompt, which lowers the barrier to blockchain development considerably, though questions about security and complexity remain.
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