By Meghan Bobrowsky

The promise of AI agents who can do your work for you is too good to pass up. Even for Mark Zuckerberg.

The Meta Platforms chief is building an AI agent to help him do his job as CEO, I reported over the weekend. The agent, which is still in development, is currently helping Zuckerberg get information faster by retrieving answers that he would typically have to go through multiple layers of people to get.

It's one of a number of current projects that are going on at Meta as the company tries to get its 78,000-person workforce to be more nimble and remain competitive with AI-native startups with much smaller staffs.

Employees are being encouraged to use new personal agent tools such as one called MyClaw, which has access to chat logs and work files and can talk to colleagues on their behalf. Another tool called Second Brain, which can do things like index and query documents for projects, is also gaining momentum.

Zuckerberg said on a recent earnings call that Meta is investing in AI-native tooling so individuals can get more done and the company can flatten some teams. "If we do this, then I think that we're going to get a lot more done and I think it'll be a lot more fun," he said.

Which begs the question: fun for whom?

Recent reports of imminent layoffs have filled Meta's staff with tremendous anxiety. The company's employee head count has been creeping back up since its " year of efficiency" cuts in 2023. AI use is now a factor in performance reviews and some employees have wondered aloud whether the AI tools they're adopting will ultimately be used to replace them entirely.

"We're starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person," Zuckerberg said on that earnings call in January.

If even the CEO of Meta is willing to automate parts of his role, few jobs may be safe.

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Nvidia CEO's Night at the Opera Showcases Role as AI Kingmaker

"Champagne and opera," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joked in a speech to a crowd of Silicon Valley stars at a new San Francisco Opera he funded with $5 million. "This is what it's like to be rich!"

Thanks to the astronomical demand for its chips, Nvidia generates more profit than almost any other public company and has used its fast-growing war chest to become the AI industry's most powerful financier. Nvidia's investments don't come with explicit requirements to use the money for its technology. Yet some companies are so dependent on its financial support they have essentially ruled out the possibility of using non-Nvidia chips.

The Number

The gross profit per dollar of revenue that Micron expects for its current quarter, thanks to booming AI-driven sales of its memory chips.

What the Humans Are Saying

AI in Charts

Three years into the AI boom, and Nvidia's sales are still soaring. But its stock is cheaper than it has been in over a decade, relative to projected earnings. Investors have either cooled on AI hype, or are seeking options with a lot more upside potential than a company already commanding a $4.5 trillion market cap.

AI in the Wild

Despite the AI-driven software-stock meltdown, America's largest companies aren't ditching their core business software just yet. Instead, they're using the moment to squeeze better deals from vendors and "vibe-code" smaller apps and software customizations.

Other Highlights From the Week in AI

   -- The fate of AI server maker Super Micro lies in Nvidia's hands. 
 
   -- America's chief financial officers say AI is coming for clerical jobs. 
 
   -- OpenAI taps a former Meta executive to lead an advertising push. 
 
   -- ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini entered the WSJ bracket pool. One might 
      actually win. 

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