Meta pulls back on AI-powered workforce reduction plan
Meta spent much of 2026 testing Project OT, a plan to use AI to automate tasks and reduce headcount by up to 60 percent in some teams, including a second wave of layoffs in November. CEO Mark Zuckerberg ultimately abandoned the plan, though the reasons are unclear. Internal data showed code changes rose 220 percent year over year, but user-facing feature improvements only increased 36 percent, suggesting the AI wasn't effective enough.
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