The future is… Not quite now? At least according to Mark Zuckerberg.

Reality bites: Zuckerberg told staff that Meta’s AI agents haven’t accelerated as hoped, and the restructuring bets “haven’t come to fruition yet.”

The lesson for you: agentic automation is still maturing. Don’t rebuild your workflows around capabilities that still aren’t there.

On the other hand: Meta’s superintelligence chief says its next model, codenamed Watermelon, has caught up to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, with a coding-focused update imminent.

More frontier competition means better tools and pricing pressure. Good news if you’re paying for AI.

And it’s not only Meta that’s struggling with its AI…

Prove it or lose it: Microsoft is merging consumer and business Copilot in August, cutting underused features, and pushing an always-on “Autopilot” agent.

The message is blunt. Copilot must focus on “real work” and earn its right to exist.

Notice the pattern? The hype cycle is cooling into a demand for results, and the tools that survive will be the ones that do the job.

It’s time to stop relying on pompous announcements and focus on what ships.