Meta AI Updates: April 25, 2026

1. Meta Will Cut 10% of Workforce While Raising 2026 AI Capex to At Least $115 Billion

Meta. Meta confirmed plans to lay off roughly 8,000 employees (about 10% of headcount) starting May 20 and cancel another 6,000 open requisitions, even as it raises 2026 capital expenditures to at least $115 billion, up from $72.2 billion in 2025, to fund AI data centers and infrastructure. The company is building out 30 new data centers by 2028, including the 1-gigawatt Prometheus facility in Ohio and the 5-gigawatt Hyperion campus in Louisiana that Meta says will be the world’s largest AI data center once complete. The cuts are explicitly tied to redirecting payroll into AI compute and Meta Superintelligence Labs. Source

2. Meta Signs Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal for Tens of Millions of Amazon Graviton5 Cores

Meta. Meta signed a multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 ARM cores for agentic-AI workloads, making Meta one of the largest Graviton customers globally. The announcement landed one day after Meta said it would lay off ~10% of its workforce, illustrating the pattern of cutting headcount while pouring billions into AI compute. It also signals continued pressure on x86 incumbents as hyperscalers and large customers move agent-tier workloads to ARM for cost and density gains. Source

3. Meta Lets Parents See What Teens Are Asking Meta AI

Meta. Meta extended its Family Center supervision tools so parents can now view weekly topic summaries of their teen’s conversations with Meta AI on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram. The feature surfaces categories of topics rather than verbatim transcripts, framed by Meta as a privacy-preserving middle ground between full transparency and full opacity. The change lands amid ongoing scrutiny of how AI chatbots interact with minors and against the backdrop of state-level child-safety legislation pushing platforms toward parental visibility defaults. Source