AI linked to ‘churn’ and redundancies in recent months, minister says
High-level executives from major multinational tech firms will attend the AI Summit at the RDS on Wednesday.
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📉 Job cuts attributed to AI5
After 3200 layoffs, Asha Sharma launches Xbox Labs to make games with AI
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to make Microsoft's gaming business more profitable. Following 3,200 job cuts, Sharma has announced Xbox Labs, a new division within Xbox that will make games with emerging technologies, including AI.
Read the original →Executives Pin Hopes on AI While Employees Tell It to Get Out
The article opens with a Chinese company head who runs a heavy-industry firm with more than 10,000 employees. After seeing news that Musk uses agents to replace real employees' work, the executive asked a consultant to help lay off the entire IT department so that he could communicate only with agents. The article says such layoff wishes are common among the executives the consultant has dealt with.
Read the original →AI Casts Shadow Over India's Multinational Tech Job Machine
Hiring growth is slowing at technology hubs that multinational companies have set up in India. The number of hubs keeps rising, but companies have begun reviewing headcount as AI spreads. The article is an abridged translation of a Nikkei Asia English-language article.
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- AI Could Cut Up to 40% of Investment Banking Jobs, Possibly Changing Organization, BCG Survey FindsBloomberg · 10/14 10:22 UTC
🧊 Hiring freezes1
80% of Accounting Firms Use Generative AI Routinely, Half Cut Hiring, Survey Finds
Rex Advisors surveyed 743 people working at accounting firms and audit corporations about their use of generative AI. According to the results, more than 80% of accounting firms use AI routinely in their work.
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- UK CFOs now say AI will shrink their own workforce, Deloitte findsStartup Fortune · 10/14 14:48 UTC
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