#telecom · How AI Is Reshaping Work

On August 17, the Supreme Court declined to hear Verizon's appeal to recover a $47M FCC fine over customer location-data sales. The same stretch, Verizon's Q2 numbers showed record profit alongside 16,600+ cumulative job cuts since October 2025, and the company says AI has nothing to do with it.

Amdocs is cutting roughly 3,000 jobs, its third annual layoff in a row — but the first one a new CEO has chosen to call an AI transition.

Dan Schulman told staff to use AI to draft their own obituaries and predicted 20–30% unemployment within five years. On April 24, Bloomberg's editorial board politely told him to relax.