ZUCKERBERG TELLS STAFF IN SECRET MEETING: OUR AI AGENTS ARE NOT WORKING THE WAY WE EXPECTED At an internal town hall on July 2, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company’s push to replace human workers with AI agents has not accelerated the way executives expected, and that the benefits of Meta’s AI-focused restructuring have not yet materialized. This is a significant admission. Meta laid off roughly 8,000 people earlier this year, approximately 10 percent of its corporate workforce, and reassigned another 7,000 to AI teams including one called Agent Transformation. The premise was that AI would pick up the slack. Zuckerberg is now telling those same remaining employees that the premise has not delivered yet. He also acknowledged that the layoffs were not as clean as they should have been. Executives were worried the company would not move fast enough to adapt. That fear drove decisions that have left morale in some AI units described by engineers as a soul-crushing environment. Meta is still spending aggressively, with Reuters reporting the company expects to invest as much as 145 billion dollars in AI infrastructure this year alone. Zuckerberg told staff he believes improvements will materialize in the next three to six months. For the thousands of people who lost their jobs to make room for AI that has not shown up yet, the timeline must feel like a very particular kind of insult. Keywords: Mark Zuckerberg AI agents, Meta AI restructuring failure, Meta layoffs AI, Meta AI investment