{"id":15273003,"date":"2026-08-26T21:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/ai-agents-meant-to-replace-meta-workers-made-large-scale-disruptive-actions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:33:25","slug":"ai-agents-meant-to-replace-meta-workers-made-large-scale-disruptive-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/ai-agents-meant-to-replace-meta-workers-made-large-scale-disruptive-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made \u201clarge-scale, disruptive actions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, Meta created a \u201cplan\u201d to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company \u201cAI native,\u201d Reuters<\/a> reported today, citing two people familiar with Meta\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n

Reuters\u2019 report highlights the challenges organizations face<\/a> when analyzing the best uses for AI<\/a> and determining when the technology is a better fit for certain tasks than employees.<\/p>\n

Meta confirmed to Reuters that the plan, reportedly codenamed Project OT (short for organization transformation), explored scenarios in which Meta reduced some team headcounts by 60 percent and that the plan called for two rounds of layoffs. Meta wouldn\u2019t confirm which teams Project OT affected.<\/p>\n

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Source: Tech – Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters report shows Meta’s challenges replacing people with AI agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15273005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15273003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1.jpg",1152,648,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-620x349.jpg",620,349,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-940x529.jpg",940,529,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1.jpg",1152,648,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1.jpg",1152,648,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-998x648.jpg",998,648,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1.jpg",1152,648,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15273003-gettyimages-2171717886-1152x648-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15273003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273004,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273003\/revisions\/15273004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15273005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}