Meta cuts 8,000 jobs and shifts 7,000 staff to AI as CEO says no more company‑wide layoffs

Meta announced a global reduction of about 8,000 positions – roughly 10% of its workforce – as part of a restructuring aimed at funding its artificial‑intelligence push. The company also cancelled plans to fill 6,000 open roles and is moving roughly 7,000 employees into newly created AI‑focused teams under a new Superintelligence Labs.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the company does not expect further company‑wide layoffs this year, while acknowledging past communication shortfalls. Severance packages include 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for each year of service, and 18 months of health coverage.

The cuts affect employees worldwide; early‑morning emails were sent in Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and other regions. In Ireland, Meta notified up to 350 of its 1,800 local staff of redundancies, prompting criticism from the Irish government and labour representatives. Employees have also raised concerns about an internal program that records mouse and keyboard activity to train AI models, sparking a petition for privacy safeguards.

Meta plans to spend $125‑$145 billion on AI infrastructure this year, a level of investment comparable to its total capital expenditure in the previous year.