Meta is preparing to cut about 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — roughly 10% of the unit’s 15,000-person workforce — as early as this week as the company pivots hard toward artificial intelligence. The cuts are expected to hit teams working on virtual-reality headsets and Meta’s VR-based social network, even as executives pour billions into AI research, data centers and smart-glasses development, according to the New York Times. Chief Technology Officer and head of Reality Labs