Tech giants like Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are cutting thousands of jobs while heavily investing in AI data centers, reflecting a costly pivot to AI ambitions rather than direct AI-driven workforce reductions. These layoffs are linked more to financial pressures from overexpansion and debt incurred to build AI infrastructure than to AI replacing jobs at scale, as the technology has yet to fulfill its disruptive labor market potential.
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