LOS ANGELES — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a companywide artificial intelligence (AI) hackathon in an internal message to employees on Friday. The event, scheduled for July 14 to July 16, will focus exclusively on AI innovation.

Ime Archibong, vice president of product management at Meta, shared event details in an internal post to approximately 70,000 employees. This hackathon is the first companywide event of its kind since approximately 8,000 employees were laid off in May.

Zuckerberg's memo also addressed internal criticism regarding recent workforce restructuring. He stated the company made errors during its transformation for artificial intelligence. "Given the complexity of these changes, we've made mistakes and will almost certainly make more." Zuckerberg wrote.

Some employees expressed in internal messages that increased responsibilities following recent layoffs left them with insufficient time to participate in the hackathon. Comments cited increased workloads, reduced staffing, and concerns about technical errors from unvetted AI integration as reasons for discouragement.

Zuckerberg emphasized that the company does not anticipate additional company-wide layoffs for the remainder of the year. Zuckerberg stated, "I don't want to overpromise because the world is changing in ways that are out of our control."

The company laid off 10 percent of its global workforce and transferred 7,000 employees to artificial intelligence workflows in May. Meta plans to increase budgets for team offsites and corporate events as part of broader team-building investments.

The company also plans to discontinue shared desk assignments in certain offices after internal discussions regarding productivity and workspace allocation. Workers surveyed colleagues last year regarding the removal of individual desks and urged management to restore assigned workspaces. The company plans to reduce manager oversight spans after identifying concerns over expanded responsibilities in its new Applied AI Engineering unit, which reportedly operated with a ratio of 50 individual contributors to one manager. In April, the company raised its annual capital spending forecast to between 125 billion dollars and 145 billion dollars.

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