A viral X post from a user named Julian claimed that his wife was laid off by Meta weeks after the company halted all day-to-day work for a company-wide “AI week” that required every employee to build an early-stage internal AI prototype by the end of the week. The post, which has not been independently verified and which Meta has not responded to, went viral amid Meta's current restructuring, with the company executing approximately 8,000 job cuts as its Head of People said Meta is pursuing flatter organizational structures and smaller, AI-focused teams. In the post, Julian wrote that “we knew the writing was on the wall,” describing the AI week as a mandatory exercise where each employee had to produce an early-stage AI tool for internal use by Meta before regular work resumed.
