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AI & Jobs JLR named 4,000 roles on September 7, about 10% of its global headcount, to be taken out over two years through voluntary redundancy. The roles it flagged as at risk are management. Volkswagen booked another 50,000 four days earlier.
AI & Jobs Campbell's reported fiscal Q4 on September 3 and confirmed its salaried workforce is already down about 13%. Full-year sales fell 5%, the dividend was cut 36%, two snack plants closed. Nobody said the letters 「AI」 once.
AI & Jobs Volkswagen's supervisory board approved 50,000 additional job cuts on September 3, doubling the total workforce reduction across the group since a 2024 deal with IG Metall. The trigger: falling China sales, high German costs, and BYD's expansion into Europe.
AI & Jobs Applied Materials reported its fastest sequential revenue growth ever on August 13: $9.1B, up 25% year over year. On the same call, the CEO credited AI with scaling revenue faster than headcount and the CFO said the company added more than 1,500 people, every one of them in manufacturing or field support.