# Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Top AI Researcher Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic, and 80% of Americans Are on Their Own With AI

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Published: 2026-05-20T19:10:00+00:00
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May 20, 2026: Meta began notifying 8,000 employees of their layoffs this morning — while simultaneously redirecting $145 billion into AI infrastructure. Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI and the architect of Tesla's self-driving brain, just joined Anthropic with a specific mission: use AI to make AI better. And a major new Milken-Harris Poll finds that 80% of Americans want government workforce transition programs now, 68% say they're navigating the AI shift entirely alone, and 88% of business leaders privately admit companies cannot solve this without a coordinated national response.

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