Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce (Eli Tan/New York Times)

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260518/i43.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260518/p43#a260518p43" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Eli Tan / <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html">Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.</p>