The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced cuts of about 70 employees as it reorients toward AI‑driven biomedical research and consolidates prior research entities into a unified science organization, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. CZI said the restructuring reallocates resources to the Biohub network and priorities that combine advanced biology with machine learning. The move underscores how major philanthropic funders are shifting talent and capital to computational biology and large‑scale data programs. For academic collaborations and startups that depended on prior CZI programs, the reorganization creates immediate funding and partnership uncertainty while signaling long‑term emphasis on AI capabilities in life‑science research.