Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta fulfills Jack Dorsey’s dire prophecy with plans to cut 20% of staff for AI0

• AI, Business, Finance, Tech
• March 17, 2026

When Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik sent a note to clients about Meta’s reported plans to cut 20% or more of its roughly 79,000-person workforce, he issued a warning. If Meta succeeds in redrawing the blueprint for an AI-enabled organization, he wrote, “others will rush to replicate it,” potentially triggering “a cascade of hurried pivots, half-formed