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Oracle Just Shed 21,000 Jobs to AI. The Real Story Is More Complicated — and More Interesting
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs and blamed AI. But the PwC chairman, a billionaire investor, and a new wave of AI agents tell a very different story about what's actually happening to work in 2026.
Lavamgam AIJun 25, 20266 min read read
The Big Idea
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in the past year. It spent $1.84 billion on severance. And in its annual filing to regulators, it said something that would have been unthinkable just three years ago: AI did it. "The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce," the company wrote in black and white. For anyone who has been waiting for proof that the AI job apocalypse is real, this is the...
artificial intelligence
AI jobs
Oracle layoffs
workforce automation
future of work
Claude Tag
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