Tech's Reality Check: Meta's Crisis and AI's Credibility Collapse

Meta's latest mass layoffs expose a dangerous paradox: record profits alongside plummeting employee morale, signaling deep fractures in tech's business model. Simultaneously, OpenAI's courtroom victory over Musk and Google's bold AI-powered search overhaul intensify competition for AI dominance, yet growing public resistance—from graduates to spouses of tech workers—reveals a widening credibility gap between industry hype and public sentiment.