Diane Bryant on NYSE Wired at the New York Stock Exchange 2025 NYSE Wired Last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would cut roughly one in 10 jobs and cancel thousands of open roles as the company races to spend billions on raw silicon and virtualized infrastructure in pursuit of what he described an “AI -forward” future. The cuts added to a mounting list of 137 tech companies that have reduced headcount by 113,000 so far in 2026, a rate of 825 jobs per day.