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Meta's New AI Unit Sparks Discontent; Exec Cursed at on Live Stream

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Meta's "Applied AI" engineering organization, created in March 2026 with roughly 6,500 people, has triggered widespread discontent over monotonous tasks aimed at improving AI models, reportedly escalating to an employee hurling insults at a leader during a company-wide live stream. During a presentation about Applied AI broadcast to thousands of employees, a worker suddenly turned on their microphone and verbally abused one of the AI leadership figures by name, with one presenter reportedly covering their face.

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