New Delhi, July 3 -- not much, not yet.

The pace of AI agent development had not "accelerated in the way" Meta executives expected, Zuckerberg said at the meeting, according to TechCrunch, which covered the remarks. The admission came roughly six months after Meta announced it would lay off approximately 8,000 employees - one in ten workers - and redirect more than 7,000 additional staff to AI-focused groups, including one created specifically for the task and named, with strained optimism, Agent Transformation.

What Zuckerberg told the town hall was not that the investment was wrong. It was that the timeline was. The company had expected agent capability to follow from infrastructure spending at a rate that has not materialized. He exp...