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Meta Reality Labs is reorganizing a 1,000-person team into AI-native 'pods' built around AI builders and pod/org leads to flatten the structure and boost engineering productivity and product quality; the move is stated as unrelated to recent layoffs and aligns with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s push for AI-driven, smaller teams that can tackle tasks more efficiently.
According to PODS moving company data, San Diego ranks 14th among U.S. cities with the highest move-out rates in 2023. California had the highest concentration of move-outs, with seven cities in the top 20. Austin, Texas, also saw significant move-outs due to affordability issues and tech industry uncertainties. Conversely, cities in the Carolinas and Houston, Texas, saw high move-in rates, driven by favorable living costs and amenities.
Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek is proposing the use of pods instead of tents at Portland's sanctioned homeless camping sites. The pods would be made of wood or metal and would provide more stability and security than tents. Kotek believes that the use of pods would be a more dignified and humane solution for the homeless population in Portland.