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AI layoffs are ‘dumb’, says Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis

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20.05.2026

While Amazon has cut 30,000 corporate roles in roughly six months and Meta has shed 8,000 jobs, both citing AI-driven productivity, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is publicly calling that logic out. 

His verdict: companies doing this lack imagination, and some may have motives that have nothing to do with the technology itself.

Speaking to Wired ahead of Google........

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