The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker Meta is laying off more staff — and monitoring the rest to train AI. By , a tech columnist at Intelligencer Formerly, he was a reporter and critic at the New York Times and co-editor of The Awl. Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began laying off up to 30,000 people...