"News of the imminent 10% layoffs leaked in March of this year. However, according to several employees, the company took weeks to confirm the dismissals. Zuckerberg finally addressed the issue at a company-wide meeting last month. The message, as some employees understood it, was that he would prefer to keep everyone, but given the high cost of AI development, he could do nothing about it. Employees would know in May whether they still had their jobs."