The Meta logo marks the entrance of its corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Nov. 9, 2022. Facebook owner Meta plans to lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Aug. 20, 2025.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company characterized the hiring freeze as "basic organizational planning," coinciding with a broader restructuring of its AI division's leadership.

According to the Times report on Tuesday, Meta is overhauling its newly formed Superintelligence Lab, by breaking it up into four smaller teams. The teams will reportedly focus on AI research, developing superintelligence (a form of AI more advanced than human intelligence), AI products, and AI infrastructure such as data centers, the Times said.