News Summary

• Mark Zuckerberg and his senior team hatched it at his Hawaii compound in January.
• AI would take over daily work performed by thousands of employees.
• The plan ran in two stages.
• A first purge would come in May, and a second shake-up in November.
• On the night of 19 May, hours before the first wave, Zuckerberg called off the November planning.
• Meta went ahead the next day and cut about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of its staff.
• It moved 7,000 people into AI roles in the same week.