iWorld
ZEE LIVE’s Supermoon launches “Live to Home” edition 2 on ZEE5
MUMBAI: As the lockdown has got extended, ZEE LIVE, in collaboration with ZEE5, continues to entertain with the best of curated content on food, fitness and entertainment under Supermoon ‘Live to Home’ edition 2 from 17 to 19 April.
Supermoon “Live to Home” houses your favourite celebrity creators. The highlights include- Fitness Hour from 8 am to 9 am – Home workouts with experts like Swapneel Hazare and Praveen Nair, Immunity by Mickey Mehta, Yoga by Natasha Noel, Diet & Nutrition by Pooja Makhija and Mental Wellbeing by Gaur Gopal Das; Food from 12 pm to 12.30 pm- Home recipes made easy with Chef Pankaj Bhodouria, Chef Vicky Ratnani and Chef Shipra Khanna and Entertainment from 8 pm to 9 pm – Unplugged music by Akhil Sachdeva and Jyotica Tangri, Folk music by Swaroop Khan, Instrumentals with Rakesh Chaurasia, Poetry by Kumar Vishwas.
Supermoon Live to Home aims to encourage social distancing while keeping you positively engaged and entertained. Enhancing the entertainment experience for users, special sets will be created to stream the content live. Users will also get an opportunity to watch their favourite artists create and perform in an informal set-up.
ZEE LIVE COO and business head Swaroop Banerjee said, "#StayAtHome has been the norm worldwide. People across the world have turned to live talent who are healing, entertaining, helping us stay fit, showing us home recipes and guiding us with positivity in these times. Supermoon Live To Home is our way of engaging our audiences in the lockdown period through some of the largest celebrities in fitness, mental health, nutrition, food and entertainment who have come together on this initiative by the ZEE Family. It gives me great joy to announce the second weekend of this edition with a promise that we will continue to be with our audiences in every moment of this journey.”
ZEE5 India programming head Aparna Acharekar added, "The first edition of Zee Live’s Supermoon ‘Live to Home’ on ZEE5 was a big success. We were happy to see all our audiences staying indoors enjoying their daily dose of uninterrupted entertainment on our platform. With ‘Live to Home’ second edition starting from April 17-19, we are confident that this will further give our viewers a reason to stay indoors and catch-up on all the content from Food to Fitness on ZEE5.”
Praveen Nair said: "I am excited to be part of this new initiative by ZEE LIVE which will be streamed on ZEE5. Let us all come together and conquer this phase while keeping ourselves fit! Let's make use of this time and learn the new way of workouts which are easy to do at your home."
Pooja Makhija said: “Live to Home is a wonderful initiative by ZEE LIVE. I am glad to share some tips and motivate you'll to stay fit and Healthy. I would urge everyone to have a fixed routine and use your time to eat healthy and stay positive.”
Kumar Vishwas said: "Entertainment is something which keeps us connected. I hope my poetry will be a magical experience for the entire family. I am glad to be associated with ZEE LIVE who is providing a platform to everyone to stay motivated and you can watch me perform on ZEE5."
iWorld
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.
