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Amazon Blamed AI for 30,000 Layoffs. Its Workforce Grew by 20,000 Anyway.

Amazon wants you picturing a robot walking your coworker to the parking lot with a cardboard box. That’s not really what happened. Since October 2025, Amazon has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs in two waves — 14,000 last fall, another 16,000 in January. CEO Andy Jassy told employees back in a June 2025 memo that …

Your AI “Friend” Isn’t Making You Less Lonely. It’s Making You More.

Stanford researchers just spent months studying how people actually talk to AI chatbots, and the takeaway is blunt: the lonelier you already are, the worse an AI companion tends to make you feel. Not better. Worse. Researchers in Stanford’s Diyi Yang lab surveyed more than a thousand people who use Character.AI and dug through 244 …

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