Meta Cuts About 8,000 Jobs as It Reassigns Thousands to New AI Teams

Overview

• Meta announced a roughly 10% workforce reduction affecting about 8,000 roles while moving thousands of other employees into newly formed AI teams.
• State WARN filings show site-specific Bay Area impacts with 2,212 jobs at Menlo Park, 313 in Sunnyvale and 74 in Playa Vista, and they say employees were notified on May 20 and will be separated by July 22.
• The company set severance at 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for each year of service and said it will continue pay during notice periods and provide immigration and health support.
• Meta is shrinking its Reality Labs hardware unit after weak VR growth and is cutting engineers across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp teams, including BizAI and Core Ads groups.
• Leadership frames the moves as a strategic AI pivot tied to big 2026 infrastructure spending but the repeated rounds of cuts have raised employee morale, privacy and regulatory concerns that could prompt closer scrutiny.