Overview

• Rishabh Agarwal said he quit the Superintelligence effort after five months, adding a fresh high-profile departure to the new organization.
• Meta told The Verge that within the high-visibility TBD Lab only one active staffer has left and that two others cited in reports never actually started roles there.
• An internal memo describes a temporary hiring pause across Meta Superintelligence Labs as 2026 headcount planning proceeds, with case-by-case exceptions for business-critical roles.
• A restructuring memo outlines four teams—TBD Lab, FAIR, Products & Applied Research, and MSL Infra—and dissolves AGI Foundations with staff moved into the new structure under Alexandr Wang’s leadership.
• Financial Times reporting, echoed by Times of India, says Shengjia Zhao received a chief scientist title after he considered returning to OpenAI; Meta says he was the initiative’s scientific lead and the title was formalized after the team’s setup.