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Epic on unveils digital quiz game ‘Epic IQ Panga’
MUMBAI: EPIC Channel, an infotainment brand known for its premium Indian factual entertainment content recently announced their upcoming TV show – ‘EPIC INDIA QUIZ CHALLENGE’, a distinctive India-themed quiz series for young minds from classes 5th – 10th. The show aims at finding children with the highest ‘IQ’- India Quotient, and will be hosted by the sensational and ever-affable Meiyang Chang.
Prior to the show launch, EPIC brings a real-time taste of the series for audiences of all ages with its first foray into the world of mobile gaming- ‘EPIC IQ PANGA’ – a daily digital quiz about India, that can be played on the EPIC On smartphone app. People across India can sign up for EPIC On and participate in the mobile quiz at 8:30 pm every night, and stand a chance to win exciting prizes every single day.
The EPIC IQ Panga is an India-based quiz with questions from the world of sports, mythology, culture, history, current affairs, and more. Users need to answer a set of 10 questions about the country as fast as they can to get the highest score possible. The EPIC IQ Panga gets even more exciting with a LIVE leaderboard and trivia about the quiz played where one can see daily, weekly and monthly winners.
Brands like Involve Your Senses, Club Mahindra, KidZania, Furtados School of Music, and Crossword have come on board to gratify the winners with some exciting prizes and at the end of the quiz period, one lucky winner stands a chance to win the BUMPER Prize- a Smart TV by METZ Premium German Televisions.
EPIC Channel has always been dedicated to bring content based on India for Indians and now with the quiz show in the pipeline the channel is reaffirming their commitment towards providing India- based infotainment.
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Meta plans 8,000 layoffs in new AI-led restructuring wave
First phase from May 20 may cut 10 per cent workforce amid AI pivot.
MUMBAI: At Meta, the future may be artificial but the cuts are very real. The social media giant is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, with an initial wave expected to impact around 8,000 employees as it doubles down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to a Reuters report, the first phase of job cuts is slated to begin on May 20, targeting roughly 10 per cent of Meta’s global workforce. With nearly 79,000 employees on its rolls as of December 31, the move marks one of the company’s most significant workforce reductions in recent years.
And this may only be the beginning. Sources indicate that additional layoffs are being planned for the second half of the year, although the scale and timing remain fluid, likely to be shaped by how Meta’s AI capabilities evolve in the coming months. Earlier reports had suggested that total cuts in 2026 could reach 20 per cent or more of its workforce.
The restructuring comes as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to steer the company towards an AI-first operating model, committing hundreds of billions of dollars to the transition. Internally, this shift is already visible: teams within Reality Labs have been reorganised, engineers have been moved into a newly formed Applied AI unit, and a Meta Small Business division has been created to align with broader structural changes.
The trend is hardly isolated. Across the tech sector, companies are trimming headcount while investing aggressively in automation. Amazon, for instance, has reportedly cut around 30,000 corporate roles nearly 10 per cent of its white-collar workforce citing efficiency gains driven by AI. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows over 73,000 tech employees have already lost jobs this year, compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
For Meta, the move echoes its earlier “year of efficiency” in 2022–23, when about 21,000 roles were eliminated amid slowing growth and market pressures. This time, however, the backdrop is different. The company is financially stronger, generating over $200 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profit last year, with shares up 3.68 per cent year-to-date though still below last summer’s peak.
That contrast underlines the shift underway. These layoffs are less about survival and more about reinvention. As Meta restructures itself around AI from autonomous coding agents to advanced machine learning systems, the question is no longer whether the company will change, but how many roles will be left unchanged when it does.
