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The latest U.S. jobs report, which indicated that employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in July, only shipped to the confusion
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And some recent data has shown a bullish picture.
Key facts
- Dave Clark, founder of AI logistics startup Auger and a former senior Amazon executive, said with the help of AI, his team of roughly 80 engineers now performs with the velocity of 800 engineers
- The company cut about 30,000 jobs between the end of 2025 and the start of this year
- Over two years, these top spenders expanded their overall staff by 10% and boosted entry-level hiring by 12%, defying other reports that college graduates face a barren job market
- Microsoft laid off nearly 5,000 people in early July as it continues to pour billions into AI data centers
Summary
Recent studies have shown AI having a positive impact on job growth and opportunities, yet large groups of economists, as well as labor activists, warn that the emerging technology threatens to quickly transform the financial system, and that action must be taken now. Tech companies, especially large ones, have continued to cull jobs during the AI boom. But whether AI is directly leading to job cuts has been difficult to measure, and the picture is blurred by corporate whiplash: CEOs blame AI for layoffs one month, then hail it as an engine for new job creation the next. “There’s been discretion out there as to what extent the layoffs we have been observing are driven by AI,” Till Von Wachter, a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Fortune.