Meta's AI Shift: Zuckerberg's New Productivity Tools

0:00It's March 24th. Welcome in. This is Durham News Today, where local news meets AI on Corey with the story. Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is shifting the company's focus from the metaverse to artificial intelligence agents. After pouring billions into virtual reality projects that didn't catch on, he's now using a personal AI agent to streamline his daily decisions at the water. $1.5 trillion social media giant. This agent pulls information quickly without going through multiple staff layers, and it's part of a bigger company-wide push to build AI tools that boost productivity. Zuckerberg wants to flatten teens and let individuals handle more, as he mentioned in recent earnings talks. Employees are already testing tools like myclaw, which accesses chats and files to chat with colleagues or their agents. And second brain, an AI that. Searchers documents like a chief of staff. Staff attend frequent AI training sessions and build their own helpers to speed things up. Meanwhile, Meta shut down its main metaverse platform, Horizon Worlds, after years of heavy

1:04losses in its reality-labs division, which makes quest, headsets, and smart glasses. The company trims staff before, but now has about 80,000 employees amid this efficiency drive. As meta races to become AI first, these changes could reshape how work gets done there, lending human effort with smarter machines for faster. Results.