Daring Fireball

Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired (News+ link):
As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, manysay the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone isunhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally,executives,” says an employee who works on Instagram....

Geoffrey Fowler, on his blog, which, alas, he calls “a Substack”:
I’m joining the Youth AI Safety Institute as its first newemployee. It’s a research and testing organization launching todayunder the umbrella of children’s nonprofit Common SenseMedia. Backed by a $20 million annual budget, the Instituteaims to do something...

Owen Scott, reporting for The Independent:
The list of tech and financial industry titans joining thecommander-in-chief during his summit with China’s president XiJinping includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and AppleCEO Tim Cook. [...]
Trump earlier confirmed a number of high-profile attendees in alengthy post on Truth Social, albeit referring to Cook as “TimApple” in the process....

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, reporting for The Verge (gift link):
Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fallcalled Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as thetease is just a small part of various Android announcementsduring Google’s Android Show. But we do know this is a majornew initiative in...