Amazon confirms AI will replace workers. CNN stars face layoffs. Corporate America is cutting deep.

The American workforce is being gutted in real time. The country’s largest employers are slashing headcounts, not because of recession, not because of profit loss, but because machines are cheaper. The pink slips are coming from every direction. Tech, media, retail, finance. No sector is safe.

Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy didn’t sugarcoat it. He told employees that generative AI and autonomous agents will “reduce our total corporate workforce.” The company has over 1,000 AI tools in development. That’s not innovation. That’s replacement. Amazon employs 1.5 million people. That number is going down. Jassy said it plainly. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.”

CNN is next. Warner Bros Discovery is splitting into two companies. CNN will be shoved into the “Global Networks” division, stripped of its Hollywood clout. The new boss, Gunnar Wiedenfels, is a numbers man. He’s not sentimental. He’s not loyal to anchors. He’s looking at the books. Anderson Cooper makes $18 million a year. Kaitlan Collins pulls the same ratings for a fifth of that. The math is brutal. Insiders say “tears are on the horizon.”

The network’s ratings are in freefall. May was its second-worst month ever in the 25 to 54 demographic. Revenue is projected to drop by nearly $500 million. Executives, producers, reporters. All on the chopping block. The old guard is too expensive. The new model is lean, cheap, and disposable.

Across the board, the trend is identical. Microsoft cut 7,000 jobs. Citigroup dropped 3,000. Procter & Gamble slashed 7,000. Walmart let go of 1,500. Intel is laying off factory workers in Oregon. UPS cut 672. The United Nations Secretariat dropped 6,900. The list is long. The reasons are short. AI, automation, and cost control. The American worker is being priced out of their own economy.

This isn’t a cycle. It’s a pivot. The World Economic Forum says 41% of companies expect to reduce staff because of AI in the next five years. That’s not a theory. That’s a plan. The jobs being erased are not coming back. They’re being replaced by code.

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