Times Union

UAlbany: Every job in the future, even vocational work, will require AI

ALBANY — Predicting that every job in the future will require a “working knowledge of AI,” University at Albany professors are going to teach faculty at Hudson Valley Community College how to ...
Road to VR

Perennial VR Classic ‘Job Simulator’ Hits 6 Million Installs, Averaging 600,000 Units Annually

Google-owned XR studio Owlchemy Labs announced that its breakout VR hit Job Simulator (2016) has now surpassed six million installs. Job Simulator has been one of the most successful VR games over the ...
Post and Courier

Electrical linemen across South Carolina are using VR to train for the job. Here's how.

Electrical line workers put their lives on the line when they go out to restore power after storms and when the wires get disconnected. As parts of South Carolina face the looming threat of snow and ...
Austin American-Statesman

Meta closes 3 Austin gaming studios, cutting at least 100 jobs

Meta has laid off about 100 people in Austin and is shutting down three area gaming studios amid broader cuts to its virtual reality division. “This is part of that effort, and we plan to reinvest the ...
New York Post

Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ this type of job while boosting vocational careers

Workers with college degrees in philosophy and other humanities will have a hard time finding jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the US economy, Palantir CEO Alex Karp cautioned Tuesday. Karp ...
AOL

Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ humanities jobs but there will be ‘more than enough jobs’ for people with vocational training

Some economists and experts say that critical thinking and creativity will be more important than ever in the age of artificial intelligence, when a robot can do much of the heavy lifting in coding or ...
Hosted on MSN

Meta torches 1,000 VR jobs after burning through $70B—entire studios gutted

Meta's Reality Labs division, long the epicenter of its metaverse ambitions, has now claimed over $73 billion in losses since late 2020, prompting a sweeping overhaul that eliminated more than 1,000 ...
The Boston Globe

Young people who are detained get training and job skills through innovative program

The DreamCutz classroom in Roslindale looks and smells like it could be the training ground for any aspiring barber: mannequin heads with bushy afros and beards waiting to be trimmed, the scent of ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices

Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI ...
Engadget

Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin

The Meta Quest 3 VR goggles and controllers are shown sitting on a wooden tabletop with blue walls and a white door in the background. (Engadget) The news isn’t too surprising. Reality Labs has lost ...
Fast Company

Meta layoffs today: Facebook parent is slashing hundreds of workers from Reality Labs VR division

The first Big Tech layoffs of 2026 have happened. This week, Facebook owner Meta Platforms informed employees that up to 1,500 positions in its Reality Labs division would be eliminated. Here’s what ...