In a message to employees on Wednesday, Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence officer, said the company would be laying off 600 people in its AI division. The cuts, he said, would help Meta build new products faster.

“By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision,” Wang wrote in an internal memo viewed by The New York Times.

But buried amid the AI division layoffs was a different set of cuts. The company laid off more than 100 people in its risk review organization, according to three people familiar with the move and internal memos viewed by the Times. That group is largely staffed by employees responsible for making sure Meta’s products abide by an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission as well as privacy rules set by regul

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