California, May 25 -- Last week, Meta laid off 8,000 employees from its global workforce and transferred another 7,000 to new artificial intelligence roles, kick-starting a process of reshaping its operations as it gets battle-ready to stay ahead of competition in the war for AI dominance.

As it ramps up capital expenditure and plans to spend up to $135 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure, the layoffs and the restructuring point to the scale of the AI pivot at the social media behemoth.

Its founder and the Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has drafted his man Friday, Andrew Bosworth, to undertake the mammoth exercise with a clear mandate to make Meta an AI-first company, WSJ reported. Andrew Bosworth - or Boz, as most peop...