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Zuckerberg tells Meta staff the agentic bet has stalled for four months

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Friday, July 3, 2026

Confidence

High · — direct-source recording

Evidence

Reuters recording of internal meeting + TechCrunch and Business Standard corroboration

Meta's CEO told an internal town hall the company's core agent thesis has not paid out on schedule.
  • According to a recording heard by Reuters, Zuckerberg said the "trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn't really accelerated in the way that we expected," and that bets on the new AI-focused structure "haven't come to fruition yet," TechCrunch reported.
  • Meta laid off about 10% of its global workforce and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees to AI-focused teams in May.
  • Meta is investing up to $145 billion in AI infrastructure by 2026, per the report.

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