Do you have any more info on the 8 figures? I hadn't come across that, but that's quite interesting to hear.

For the mass layoffs, I was under the belief that those were largely driven by the tax code alterations in the US.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/meta_offers_10m_ai_re... Nah, big companies don't even care about that very much, they have a million tax dodges, its the smaller startups that are deeply impacted by that type of change.