Meta cuts 600 jobs amid AI expansion push — as automation replaces human staff

Meta is cutting around 600 jobs within its artificial intelligence unit, a move it says aims to boost efficiency.The layoffs to Meta's Superintelligence Labs division, which has nearly 3,000 employees, come as the company's efforts to lean into AI had become overly bureaucratic, and the social media giant hopes the cuts will produce a more efficient workflow, an internal memo showed, according to Axios."By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact," Meta chief AI officer Alexa