In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest backlash against AI.

The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta employees on Monday reassigning 7,000 of them, and said that “As org leaders worked on the changes, many of them…

Roughly 8,000 employees will be laid off and another 7,000 reassigned as Meta tries to keep pace in the AI race.