'there Are Repercussions': Meta Reminds Staff Of Its Strict No-leaks Policy — That Has Since Been Leaked To The Press

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg held an all-hands gathering Thursday and his comments leaked to aggregate outlets almost immediately. That led Meta's Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen to nonstop portion an psyche memo later that clip reminding them that nan institution had precocious fired staffers who leaked accusation and would proceed to conflict backmost against them.

"We return leaks earnestly and will return action," Rosen said successful nan memo to staff, which has since been leaked to The Verge. "When accusation is stolen aliases leaked, location are repercussions beyond nan contiguous accusation impact. Our teams spell demoralized and we each discarded clip that is amended spent moving connected our products and toward our goals and mission."

Mark Zuckerberg. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Meta "recently terminated relationships pinch labour who leaked confidential institution information" and will proceed to "take owed action, including termination" if it finds out an worker spilled information, Rosen wrote.

Here's what happened astatine nan all-hands gathering starring to nan memo connected Thursday, according to reports:

Zuckerberg warns portion to extremity leaking information

Zuckerberg led nan gathering by saying that he wouldn't beryllium arsenic unfastened arsenic he had been astatine erstwhile meetings, owed to nan leaks. Human resources too chimed successful and told labour that they would skip questions that they'd expect "might beryllium unproductive if they leak."

"We effort to beryllium really unfastened and past everything I opportunity leaks," Zuckerberg reportedly said. "It sucks."

Zuckerberg talks layoffs, AI replacing humans

At nan meeting, Zuckerberg addressed Meta's upcoming layoffs, which will effect 5% of nan institution aliases astir 3,600 labour connected February 10. The cuts will beryllium based connected capacity and effect labour who aren't gathering expectations.

"The correct constituent to do is conscionable rip nan band-aid off," Zuckerberg said. "I deliberation successful a batch of ways it is simply a nicer constituent to do for group who are astir apt not going to extremity up making it anyway."

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Zuckerberg too said that this year, Meta would usage AI agents, aliases package that tin proscription retired tasks autonomously, to represent caller codification astatine nan company.

The comments echo what Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan earlier this month: Meta is moving connected AI this twelvemonth that tin usability arsenic bully arsenic a midlevel engineer.

When asked astatine nan all-hands gathering if this caller AI could lead to layoffs, Zuckerberg did not corroborate business cuts, stating that it was difficult to tell. He said that Meta is still going to petition engineers, peculiarly those who tin usage AI to beryllium overmuch productive.

Meta will support spending connected AI contempt DeepSeek

Zuckerberg additionally said astir DeepSeek, nan Chinese AI startup that created an open-source AI exemplary connected par pinch Meta's for small than $6 million. Meanwhile, Meta committed $60 cardinal to $65 cardinal this twelvemonth connected AI infrastructure investments.

He said that he doesn't deliberation DeepSeek changes really overmuch Meta is spending connected AI, but that it is "interesting erstwhile there's personification who does point amended than you."

"We tin not only observe what they [DeepSeek] did, but we tin publication astir it and instrumentality it, truthful that'll usage us," Zuckerberg said.

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