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Inside the headquarters of the world’s largest social media company, the “Year of Efficiency” has reportedly turned into a year of dread. As the set date of Wednesday, May 20, approaches, Meta is prepared to let go roughly 8,000 pink employees, slashing about 10% of its global workforce. Despite the company reporting record-shattering profits, including...

Xi to visit US (Image credit: AP) Chinese president Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States in the autumn at the invitation of US president Donald Trump, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday.Wang made the announcement while briefing reporters on the just-concluded meeting between Xi and Trump in Beijing....

MUMBAI: In the wake of the controversy generated by NCP president Sunetra Pawar’s letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) which omitted the organisational posts held by senior party politicians Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare, sources said that she and her sons Parth and Jay have reached out to Tatkare and sought a meeting.A...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a straightforward message for the world’s software engineers: the era of “writing code” line by line is officially over. According to a Short posted recently by Special Competitive Studies Project on YouTube, the tech veteran declared in an industry conference that a “major change” hit the industry late last...

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet has defended the company’s decision to make AI fluency a requirement for employee promotions. She has revealed that the move followed a familiar playbook similar to the digital transformation era of the 2010s, but at a much faster pace. Speaking to Fortune at the recent Great Place to Work For All...

Taiwan on Friday sent a pointed message to China after the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, saying US arms sales to the island are protected by American law and that Taipei will continue to deepen strategic ties with the United States.The statement came after President Donald Trump said he had discussed Taiwan arms sales with Chinese...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131120257,imgsize-56736,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/mmbn-29.jpg" alt="CSK and LSG players observe minute’s silence, wear black armbands in IPL match; here's why" title=" Photo/screengrab ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Photo/screengrab Players of both Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) observed a minute’s silence and wore black armbands before the start of their IPL 2026 match at the Ekana Cricket...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131119781,imgsize-47480,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/131119781.jpg" alt="First major aircraft deal in years! Trump says China to buy over 200 Boeing jets, potential order may reach 750" title=" Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (AI-image) ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (AI-image) US President Donald Trump on Friday said that China has agreed to buy more than 200 Boeing...

‘Mamata head of criminals’: RG Kar victim’s mother after 3 cops suspended over case botch-up (Image credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder victim on Friday called former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee a ‘criminal’ and alleged that the truth behind the case would emerge...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131119601,imgsize-106312,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/neet-ug-paper-leak-cbi-arrests-two-more-accused-in-maharashtra-tally-rises-to-7ltbrgt.jpg" alt="NEET paper leak 2026: CBI arrests 'kingpin', a Chemistry professor from Pune" title=" NEET-UG paper leak: CBI arrests two more accused in Maharashtra; tally rises to 7 (Image credit: PTI) ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> NEET-UG paper leak: CBI arrests two more accused in Maharashtra; tally rises to 7 (Image credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The...