Amazon, Meta and Microsoft cut jobs amid efficiency drive

8 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · May 1

Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 7% of its US staff, while Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Block, Snap and Pinterest have also announced cuts affecting thousands.
Executives say overstaffing after pandemic hiring and pressure to control costs, not AI replacing workers, are driving reductions even as companies ramp up AI investment.
The biggest tech groups still employ roughly as many people as in 2022 and plan to spend more than $700bn this year on largely AI-related infrastructure.

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