Meta Platforms began the first wave of a planned 10 percent workforce reduction on May 21, 2026, eliminating approximately 8,000 positions across engineering and operations teams. CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed the cuts as a structural response to AI tools that can now perform tasks previously requiring large numbers of human engineers. Meta has simultaneously reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to new AI-focused groups and continues to invest tens of billions of dollars in data centers, chips, and its open-source Llama model series.

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