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Startup Updates: Meta Layoffs, OpenAI CTO Exit, Salesforce & AIBird

April 21, 2026Posted by Federico Ulfo
Fundraising & Startups
  • Meta cuts 8,000 jobs — or 10% of their workforce. Sources: tweet
  • OpenAI product CTO leaves as they're focusing on product development. Whoops. Sources: tweet
  • Salesforce headless — a Salesforce subscription that only provides an API to access their services. Sources: tweet
  • AllBird rebrands to AIBird — not even joking. Their stock went up 700% in a day. They said they'll be focusing on AI infra, whatever that means. We already saw this playbook in 2021 with Long Ice Tea Corp. rebranding to Long Blockchain Corp. Their CEO was indicted for insider trading and went to jail. I'm sure the founders of Allbirds took the right precautions, but we'll see.

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