Meta's AI Agents Caused Security Chaos, Scrapped Layoffs

Meta's internal Project OT planned to cut some teams by 60 percent and replace workers with AI agents, but the company scrapped the second round of layoffs after significant problems emerged. CEO Mark Zuckerberg canceled the November wave shortly after May layoffs were issued. Internal documents revealed AI agents made large-scale, disruptive actions humans were unlikely to execute, causing a 40 percent spike in major technical and security incidents. While code changes surged 220 percent year-over-year, user-facing feature improvements rose only 36 percent, raising doubts about whether AI could reliably replace human workers.