{"id":989496,"date":"2026-02-03T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989496"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:22:16","slug":"did-artificial-intelligence-really-drive-layoffs-at-amazon-and-other-firms-it-can-be-hard-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/did-artificial-intelligence-really-drive-layoffs-at-amazon-and-other-firms-it-can-be-hard-to-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Did artificial intelligence really drive layoffs at Amazon and other firms? It can be hard to tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure about being laid off from Amazon last week is that it wasn\u2019t a failure to get on board with the company\u2019s artificial intelligence plans. <\/p>\n<p>Plumb, his team\u2019s head of \u201cAI enablement,\u201d says he was so prolific in his use of Amazon\u2019s new AI coding tool that the company flagged him as one of its top users. <\/p>\n<p>Many assumed Amazon\u2019s 16,000 corporate layoffs announced last week reflected CEO Andy Jassy\u2019s push to \u201creduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure about being laid off from Amazon last week is that it wasn\u2019t a failure to get on board with the company\u2019s artificial intelligence plans. Plumb, his team\u2019s head of \u201cAI enablement,\u201d says he was so prolific in his use of Amazon\u2019s new AI coding tool that the company flagged him as one of its top users. Many assumed Amazon\u2019s 16,000 corporate layoffs announced last week reflected CEO Andy Jassy\u2019s push to \u201creduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}