Mark Zuckerberg Replaced 10% of Staff With AI — Now Admits It Is Moving Too Slow

Mark Zuckerberg Replaced 10% of Staff With AI—Now Admits It Is Moving Too Slow (Credit: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff last week that the company's push to build AI agents is moving slower than expected, a striking admission after the tech giant cut roughly 10% of its workforce and redirected thousands of employees into artificial intelligence roles earlier this year.

Meta has spent the past several months aggressively reorganising around AI, betting that automated agents could handle workplace tasks, streamline operations and, eventually, reduce reliance on human labour.