Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a personal AI agent to help streamline his work, as the company encourages employees to adopt agentic tools. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, says the agent remains under development but is already being used to speed information retrieval by pulling data directly rather than routing requests through multiple layers of teams or people.
The initiative fits with Meta’s broader push to raise productivity and reduce friction across its roughly 78,000-person workforce as it seeks to 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 signaled possible organizational shifts: “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 offers access to work files and chat logs and supports conversational interactions with colleagues or AI counterparts. Another internal system, Second Brain, built on Anthropic’s Claude infrastructure, has been described inside the company as an “AI chief of staff” intended to accelerate project work.
Separately, Reuters reported that Meta may be finalizing plans for another round of layoffs to reduce costs and capture efficiency gains from AI, potentially affecting as many as 20% of employees, according to three sources. Reuters said no date or final scope has been set. Meta declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal report and called the Reuters story a “speculative report about theoretical approaches.”
Meta’s shift toward AI-first operations and potential restructuring echoes moves across tech and crypto, where companies such as Messari and Crypto.com have announced leadership changes and staff reductions amid pivots to AI.
Source: Wu Blockchain
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