Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly developing a personal AI agent to help manage his work as the company pushes employees to adopt agentic tools. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources close to the matter, said the agent is still in development but is already being used to speed information retrieval by pulling data directly instead of routing requests through multiple layers of people or teams.
The effort aligns with Meta’s broader goal of boosting employee productivity and reducing friction across its roughly 78,000-person workforce to better compete with AI-native startups. In a late-January earnings call, Zuckerberg said 2026 would be the year “AI starts to dramatically change the way” Meta works and suggested potential changes to the company’s organizational structure: “Our north star is building the best place for individuals to make a massive impact. So to do this, we’re investing in AI-native tooling so individuals at Meta can get more done, we’re elevating individual contributors, and flattening teams.”
Employees have reportedly been using internal agentic tools such as MyClaw, which provides access to work files and chat logs and enables conversational interactions with colleagues or AI counterparts. Another internal tool, Second Brain, built on Anthropic’s Claude infrastructure, has been described internally as an “AI chief of staff” to accelerate project work.
Separately, Reuters reported that Meta may be finalizing plans for another round of layoffs to offset costs and capitalize on AI efficiency gains, potentially affecting up to 20% of the company, according to three sources. Reuters said no date or final scale had been set. Meta declined to comment on the WSJ article and described the Reuters story as a “speculative report about theoretical approaches.”
The move toward AI-first operations and subsequent restructuring mirrors trends across the crypto and tech sectors, where firms such as Messari and Crypto.com recently announced executive changes and staff reductions amid pivots toward AI.
Source: Wu Blockchain
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