Mark Zuckerberg addresses Meta employees on organizational shifts after massive AI-driven layoffs

Mark Zuckerberg sent a company-wide memo to Meta employees in June 2026 acknowledging that the company’s aggressive pivot toward artificial intelligence had come with real human costs, and that some of those costs were the result of his own miscalculations. The memo arrived weeks after Meta laid off approximately 8,000 employees in May, roughly 10% of its global workforce, while simultaneously reassigning around 7,000 others into AI-related roles. Zuckerberg told staff he accepted responsibility for mistakes made during the transition and assured them that no further company-wide layoffs were expected for the remainder of 2026. What actually happened inside Meta The layoffs in May were the visible part of a much larger internal initiative. An investigation revealed that Meta had been operating under an internal program called “Project OT,” short for Organization Transformation, which contemplated reducing team sizes by as much as 60%. The plan reportedly called for a second wave of cuts beyond the initial 10% reduction. But that second wave was halted just hours before execution on May 19, 2026. The first wave, however, went through as planned. Internally, the framing was about tra...