Meta Had Everyone Train Their AI Replacement. Then Zuckerberg Canceled the Layoffs.

Meta's AI replacement plan got 10 percent of the workforce out the door. Then major incidents jumped 40 percent and the big layoff never came. Mark Zuckerberg told Meta's annual retreat he was building an AI-native company staffed increasingly by virtual employees. Meta had also installed software on every employee's system that recorded what they did every day. The plan, per alleged internal memos, was two rounds of layoffs: roughly 10 percent first, 50 to 60 percent later in the year. Meta ran the first round. It never ran the second. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop go through the numbers th