AI & Jobs Walmart, May 12 (WSJ Scoop): ~1,000 Corporate Workers Cut or Forced to Bentonville, Global Tech and AI Product Teams Merged Under Danker and Kumar — the May-2026 AI Cohort Just Added the World's Largest Employer
Walmart is eliminating or relocating ~1,000 corporate workers, merging its global-technology and AI product teams under Daniel Danker and Suresh Kumar. CEO John Furner's framing is 「growth at a much lower marginal cost.」 The largest private employer in the U.S. now reads from the same May script as Cloudflare, PayPal and GitLab.