Generative AI 101

Alexa, Fire Middle Management: The Amazon Layoffs

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Last week, Amazon axed 14,000 white-collar jobs, and this time, the pink slip came with a side of machine learning. In this episode, Emily Laird is unpacking the biggest corporate AI bloodbath of 2025; how generative AI took aim not at warehouses, but at the middle managers, HR folks, and program leads who thought they were safe behind a PowerPoint deck.


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