Zuckerberg and Meta dust off a classic playbook

Meta stock rose as much as 3% on Monday after the social media giant with AI ambitions [announced a cloud-computing deal](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-stock-pops-on-planned-layoffs-27-billion-nebius-cloud-computing-deal-145551181.html) with Nebius ([NBIS](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NBIS)), worth as much as $27 billion and [is reportedly considering the largest round of layoffs](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-001705452.html) in several years, a 20% reduction. The one-two punch of lowering headcount and investing in AI infrastructure represents a strategy that much of corporate America is considering or has already dabbled in. Spend, sure, but also find offsetting savings, simultaneously telegraphing financial responsibility and efficiency gains. [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-and-meta-dust-off-a-classic-playbook-100037193.html/?err=1](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-and-meta-dust-off-a-classic-playbook-100037193.html/?err=1)