Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped ^40.8%

TechCrunch - By Lucas Ropek - 7/2/2026, 11:38 PM

Optimism Bias 17.7% - Pessimism Bias 17.7% - Appeal to Authority 13%

Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example. Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected them to. Earlier this year, Meta laid off some... more