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Meta quietly told workers on October 22 that it will cut roughly 600 jobs from its newly consolidated Superintelligence Labs — a blunt reminder that Big Tech’s grand promises frequently end in chaos for ordinary employees. The reductions hit research and product teams even as leadership insists the firm remains all-in on “superintelligence.”
Those hit include staff in FAIR, product AI groups, and AI infrastructure units, while the shiny new TBD Lab — the elite team building the next-generation models — remains untouched and continues to hire. That selective pruning smells less like prudence and more like corporate theater: protect the favored inner circle while trimming everyone else.
Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, framed the move as a fix for bureaucracy, saying smaller teams mean faster decisions and bigger responsibilities for remaining staff. It’s the same playbook we’ve seen across Silicon Valley — trim ranks publicly, centralize power privately, and sell it as “efficiency.”
Meanwhile, Meta has been pouring staggering sums into its AI ambitions and data centers, recruiting top talent from rivals while telling the rest of the workforce to find new roles internally. That’s a familiar story: lavish spending on glossy projects while ordinary engineers and researchers are shuffled aside when the balance sheet or the PR narrative demands it.
Company memos say affected employees are encouraged to apply for other positions inside the firm and that many will be reassigned, but promises from corporate headquarters don’t fix paychecks or mortgage payments. Workers who built the tools that made Meta powerful deserve better than to be bargaining chips in a corporate posture shift that protects elite teams.
This is a moment for conservatives to call out the double standard in today’s tech oligarchies: endless ambition and secrecy for the few, instability for the many. Hardworking Americans shouldn’t be collateral damage in a rush toward some abstract vision of “superintelligence” dreamed up by coastal elites who answer to investors, not voters. We should demand transparency, accountability, and real protections for employees squeezed by these corporate experiments.
