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Meta announced a ~10% workforce reduction and scrapped 6,000 open positions to fund $125-145B in 2026 AI capex. CEO Mark Zuckerberg linked the cuts to smaller teams doing more, without stating that AI reduced these roles.

• · Quote is Zuckerberg's verbatim comment on the April announcement, as reported by CNN Business.
• · Replaces an earlier quote that appended a second sentence ('2026 is going to be the year that AI starts to dramatically change the way that we work'). CNN quotes that line only in part, from Meta's January 2026 earnings call - a different occasion - and the words '2026 is going to be' were not in the source.
• · On the January 2026 earnings call Zuckerberg called 2026 'the year that AI starts to dramatically change the way that we work' (CNN Business, partial quote).
• · Downgraded from productivity_consolidation/explicit/high: the verified quote does not name AI, and CNN reports the cuts alongside AI capex funding, so AI is one of several stated reasons.
• · Capex guidance raised to $125-145B citing AI infrastructure costs.
• · May 2026 reports describe the execution of the April-announced 8,000-person reduction rather than a separate Meta workforce action.