Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Costs Contributed To Layoffs Of 8,000 Staffers, Report Says

Meta's staggering decision to eliminate nearly a tenth of its workforce last year was partly driven by the company's urgent pivot toward artificial intelligence, according to remarks by Mark Zuckerberg, raising uncomfortable questions about whether the technology industry's AI arms race is quietly reshaping the labor market for entire swaths of knowledge workers. The admission suggests that the layoffs—which rippled across Silicon Valley and redefined how major tech companies manage headcount—may have been less about cutting bloat and more about redeploying resources toward a technology that could eventually displace the very roles those workers once occupied. For thousands of terminated employees, the bitter irony was stark: they lost their jobs partly because the company was investing billions to build

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