Moreover, it has risen more than 30% within a two-month timeframe eleven times, with significant movements occurring in 2013 and 2025.

Meta laid off 600 employees in its Superintelligence Labs division. Its chief AI officer shared a memo addressing the job cuts.

In a move that bucks the tech industry’s trend of aggressively hiring workers who specialize in artificial intelligence, Meta is slashing about 600 employees from its closely watched AI efforts, per reports on Wednesday.

Meta violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to give Facebook and Instagram users simple mechanisms to report illegal content, the European Commission said in a preliminary decision announced yesterday. Meta also failed to give users an effective way to challenge content moderation decisions, the EC said.

While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.

A Meta executive told employees the job cuts are meant to help the company move faster when it comes to its AI efforts.

The layoffs will affect legacy teams but not the company’s new TBD Lab unit.

Meta Platforms is cutting roughly 600 artificial intelligence jobs even as it continues to hire more workers for its superintelligence lab, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

Alibaba's new smart glasses are undercutting Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses by a significant margin.