'There Are Repercussions': Meta Reminds Staff of Its Strict No-Leaks Policy — That Has Since Been Leaked to the Press

Feb 01, 2025 12:09 AM - 1 week ago 10463

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg held an all-hands gathering Thursday and his comments leaked to multiple outlets almost immediately. That led Meta's Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen to nonstop unit an soul memo later that time reminding them that the 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 the memo to staff, which has since been leaked to The Verge. "When accusation is stolen aliases leaked, location are repercussions beyond the contiguous information impact. Our teams go 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 labor who leaked confidential institution information" and will proceed to "take due action, including termination" if it finds out an worker spilled information, Rosen wrote.

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

Zuckerberg warns unit to extremity leaking information

Zuckerberg led the gathering by saying that he wouldn't beryllium arsenic unfastened arsenic he had been astatine erstwhile meetings, owed to the leaks. Human resources besides chimed successful and told labor 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 the meeting, Zuckerberg addressed Meta's upcoming layoffs, which will impact 5% of the company aliases astir 3,600 labor connected February 10. The cuts will beryllium based connected capacity and impact labor who aren't gathering expectations.

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

Related: Meta Is Laying Off More Than 3,000 arsenic CEO Mark Zuckerberg Calls for 'Extensive Performance-Based Cuts'

Zuckerberg besides said that this year, Meta would usage AI agents, aliases package that tin transportation retired tasks autonomously, to constitute caller codification astatine the company.

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

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

Meta will support spending connected AI contempt DeepSeek

Zuckerberg additionally said astir DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that created an open-source AI exemplary connected par pinch Meta's for little than $6 million. Meanwhile, Meta committed $60 cardinal to $65 billion 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 thing amended than you."

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

Related: Meta Is Building AI That Can Write Code Like a Mid-Level Engineer, According to Mark Zuckerberg

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