Mark Zuckerberg asked his remaining Meta staff to start having fun again, just weeks after axing 8,000 of their colleagues, urging them to throw themselves into a new artificial intelligence project even as the company pushes deeper into an era of 'efficiency'.
The Meta chief executive sent an internal memo on Friday urging employees to take part in a companywide artificial intelligence hackathon planned for July. The proposal landed badly with a workforce still reeling from the company's largest round of job cuts since 2023, and internal messages show staff openly rejecting the idea. Meta has not disputed the authenticity of the memo or the employee responses, which were first reported by Wired.
