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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-05-20-pm/
- Published: 2026-05-20T23:07:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-20T23:07:15.000Z
- Description: Meta’s layoffs landed today — 10% cuts, rolling out office by office starting with Singapore at 4am local time. Google I/O’s afterglow kept generating stories, and Samsung’s labor situation got messier.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

Meta's layoffs landed today — 10% cuts, rolling out office by office starting with Singapore at 4am local time. Google I/O's afterglow kept generating stories, and Samsung's labor situation got messier.

> **$90B** — The scale of Nvidia's dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months, led not by its VC arm but by its business development group. *(Financial Times)*

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#### [Meta Starts the 10% Cut, Singapore Gets the 4am Note First](https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-job-cuts-singapore-4am-10-percent-ai-efficiency?ref=adjacent.media)

The cuts are framed as an "AI efficiency" initiative, which does heavy work as a euphemism. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Samsung Faces Strike Risk After Labor Talks Collapse](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/samsung-faces-risk-of-chip-disruption-after-labor-talks-collapse?ref=adjacent.media)

Samsung rejected a mediation proposal that the union had already accepted — a general work stoppage is now set for May 21, at exactly the wrong moment for memory chip supply. *(Bloomberg)*

#### [China Banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 While Jensen Huang Was Visiting With Trump](https://www.ft.com/content/a30c3dd5-9383-4606-a649-fdf19c41c308?accessToken=zwAAAZ5Ey6AakdOjDD3Vk4NGBtOmSf3xnEHDCA.MEQCIHgBA4cv7YnP40sij9odmFz5qIthmGr-Bar7DKVMM3khAiAeL0qW5eB-U-gMqy3IaNSyC8Sd-ek5qXeNuHRsOd897Q&sharetype=gift&token=2d43291b-5ef6-4760-aaf0-21805c088ddf&syn-25a6b1a6=1&ref=adjacent.media)

The timing — a consumer gaming chip banned mid-diplomatic visit — suggests Beijing is keeping its own leverage intact regardless of what's happening in the room. *(Financial Times)*

#### [GitHub Confirms Breach of 3,800 Internal Repos via Malicious VS Code Extension](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/?ref=adjacent.media)

One employee, one bad extension, 3,800 repositories — the supply chain attack surface keeps expanding through routine mistakes. *(BleepingComputer)*