Amazon's idea of reassurance apparently involves more robots
Facepalm: Amazon has responded to reports that the company aims to replace 600,000 US warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Predictably, it's trying to put a positive spin on the news, claiming that the "real headline isn't about robots" but about people. The message comes as part of an announcement revealing two new Amazon systems designed to perform human jobs.
A hot potato: Cisco has announced that it will become the latest tech giant to lay off workers just as its revenue is soaring and AI becomes the most important focus. The move comes a week after CEO Chuck Robbins told an interviewer, "I don't want to get rid of a bunch of people right now."
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Big quote: As Frank Herbert writes in Dune, "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."