The announcement follows tensions that exploded between another AI company, Anthropic, and the Pentagon in late February after the company refused to allow its products to be used for autonomous weapons and surveillance of Americans. The Pentagon subsequently designated Anthropic a supply chain risk and Trump ordered federal agencies to begin offloading use of its products, though a judge has issued an injunction on those actions.
Oracle: Laying off workers who trained AI to replace them *like digging your own grave):
Oracle Lays Off 30,000 As AI Spending Surges
ByJon Markman,Contributor. Analyzing tech stocks through the prism of cultural change.Follow AuthorApr 06, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Thursday, March 26, 2026.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
As US tech companies have ramped up investments in AI, they have slashed a staggering number of jobs. Microsoft cut 15,000 workers lastyear. Amazon laid off 30,000 employees in the last six months. The financial-services company Block eliminated more than 4,000 people, or 40% of its workforce, in February. Meta laid off more than 1,000 in the last six months, and, according to a Reuters report, may cut 20% of all employees in the near future. Just this week, the software giant Oracle laid off thousands of workers. Smaller players like Pinterest and Atlassian also made recent cuts, culling about 15% and 10% of their workforces, respectively. Estimates put the total number of tech layoffs in the past year at more than 165,000, according to the tracker Layoffs
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