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- AI FOMO turns companies and workers into performers
A commentary piece by 刺猬公社 (republished by Huxiu and 36Kr) examines how AI FOMO is reshaping workplaces: Layoffs.fyi data shows 33% of 2026 layoff events were AI-related versus 1% in 2024, and Crunchbase figures cited in the piece attribute 92,913 tech layoffs this year to AI — 72% of the total — with Layoffs.fyi tracking more than 130,000 cuts, including at Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and PayPal. The article also cites a Howworks.ai survey saying 51% of U.S. workers fear losing their jobs to AI, 72% of professionals lack confidence in adapting to it, and 16% of employees pretend to use AI to please their bosses, while 60%–70% of tech leaders name FOMO as a key reason for AI investment. It further references a 2026 meta-analysis framing AI anxiety through terror management theory, a Nature survey of 1,907 researchers across 75 countries (48% negative, 30% positive, 22% neutral), and a joint statement by 26 Fields Medalists including Terence Tao, arguing the anxiety touches deeper questions about human worth.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Amazon cut 30,000 jobs in a year while betting $200B on AI infrastructure
A report republished with authorization by TMTPost says Amazon eliminated more than 30,000 corporate roles between October 2025 and October 2026 — roughly 10% of its 350,000 white-collar staff and the largest layoff in its 30-year history — with over 70% of the cuts at L5–L7 middle-management levels. In the same period, the article says, Amazon announced 2026 capital expenditure of about $200 billion, mostly for AI infrastructure, roughly 1.5x the prior year's $131 billion and nearly 37% above Wall Street expectations. It also cites an estimated $3 billion in annual savings from the first 14,000-person round (per Cybernews) and says Amazon raised its total Anthropic investment from $8 billion to $33 billion in April 2026, with future plans up to $65 billion, in exchange for Anthropic's commitment to spend more than $100 billion on AWS over the next decade.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Amazon cuts nearly 1,000 more roles while pouring $220B into AI
Amazon carried out a fresh round of job cuts starting October 6 across customer service, Marketplace support and retail engineering, with teams in India and the UK also affected; a person familiar said fewer than 1,000 employees were impacted. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that a "small number" of roles were eliminated, mainly in the Stores business. The move extends a series of reductions since October 2025: about 14,000 corporate jobs cut that month, another 16,000 in January 2026 touching AWS units including Bedrock, AI cloud services and Redshift, and roughly 17,000 in January–September 2026 per Layoffs.fyi — more than 30,000 in under a year. At the same time, capital spending is hitting record levels, with reports putting 2026 capex at about $200 billion (one report says $220 billion), mostly for AI infrastructure, up sharply from $131 billion in 2025.
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