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META CUTS 8,000 JOBS, HALTS 6,000 HIRES

Meta will eliminate approximately 8,000 positions (10% of workforce) on May 20 and leave 6,000 open roles unfilled. The company is making the cuts to offset massive AI infrastructure spending and improve operational efficiency.

► WHY IT MATTERS: This signals that even trillion-dollar tech companies view current AI spending as unsustainable without workforce restructuring, setting a precedent for how the industry will balance AI investment with profitability.

OPENAI LAUNCHES GPT-5.5 MODEL

OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, continuing its rapid cadence of major model releases following GPT-4 and earlier versions. The new model represents the latest evolution in its flagship AI offering.

► OpenAI's accelerated release schedule demonstrates how quickly the AI capability frontier is advancing, raising stakes for competitors and intensifying the race for production-ready next-generation models.

BITWARDEN CLI PACKAGE COMPROMISED ON NPM

Attackers uploaded a malicious @bitwarden/cli package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload designed to compromise developer credentials and spread to other projects. The compromise was discovered and removed.

► This demonstrates how supply-chain attacks targeting security tools themselves can have cascading effects across development ecosystems, undermining trust in foundational infrastructure.

TSMC MAPS CHIP ROADMAP THROUGH 2029

TSMC announced its manufacturing roadmap through 2029, committing to launch new process nodes annually for client applications and every two years for AI and high-performance computing workloads. No High-NA EUV process was disclosed.

► TSMC's commitment to biennial AI chip process advances underpins the entire industry's ability to deliver next-generation compute, making this roadmap critical to understanding realistic timelines for AI scaling.