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Disney+ Hotstar brings exclusive content from Bigg Boss Tamil season 4
MUMBAI: Bigg Boss Tamil is back again to light up, and spice up, the festive season. Hosted by Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan, the fourth season of the reality show intends to offer an enhanced and riveting digital viewing experience to its audience through its tie-up with Disney+ Hotstar.
While fans can tune into the new season of Bigg Boss Tamil on Star Vijay, the show is also available on Disney+ Hotstar. The streaming service is giving its viewers the opportunity to watch the show and use their power to vote 50 times a day, exclusively on the platform – thereby becoming the ultimate game-changers to keep their favourite contestants in the house to battle for the much-coveted title.
The streaming platform also has exclusive ‘unseen clips’ from Tuesday to Saturday inside the Bigg Boss house – meaning another helping of drama and action for the show’s fans. Along with full episodes of Bigg Boss Tamil fourth season, the platform will also offer episode extensions and weekly highlights which can be watched from Monday to Friday as per the viewer’s convenience.
Disney+ Hotstar spokesperson said, “Over the years, Bigg Boss Tamil has grown to be one of the biggest entertainers we have today and has garnered a huge fan base. For this year’s edition, we have tried to incorporate interesting ways in which the audience can participate in the show and view exclusive content.”
Bigg Boss Tamil forth season is the latest addition to the free to watch segment of Disney+ Hotstar.
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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.
