As part of an AI initiative that tracks employee keystrokes and mouse clicks, Meta is monitoring use of popular sites like Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia.

Meta will start tracking the way employees work, including their keystrokes and mouse clicks, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, told workers on Tuesday that a new tool will run on Meta's computers and internal apps, logging their activity to be used as training data for AI technology.

Meta said on Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of tech industry layoffs fueled in part by artificial intelligence.

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Councilor Bellis said she and her council colleagues repeatedly "got the runaround" from Meta officials throughout the process, and the corporation did not agreed to any public meetings.

The layoffs come as no shock, for months Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been doubling down on his claims that AI could reshape the company’s workforce. During Meta’s January earnings call, he described 2026 as “the year that AI starts to dramatically change the way that we work.”

Meta staffers will soon have the option of chatting with a creepy-sounding virtual clone of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to a report published Monday. The AI-powered Zuck will be a “photorealistic” 3D copy of the eccentric executive and is being trained to recreate his mannerisms,

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Meta will cut 10% of its workforce, impacting about 8,000 employees, as it shifts resources to AI and reduces costs amid ongoing restructuring efforts.