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Re:OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multib... by wmeredith on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:51AM (#45772601)
Amazon - 14,000 layoffs; significant

Microsoft - 14,000 (multiple rounds); significant

Meta - 600 layoffs; insignificant for company size

Google - "Several hundred layoffs"; insignificant for a company size

Apple - No layoffs

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/tech-layoffs-2025-list/

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Re:OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multib... by _DeadFred_ on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:47PM (#45775957)
Google's Youtube unit is doing soft layoffs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766368

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Re:OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multib... by ponector on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:23PM (#45776309)
Also every one of them has hundreds of thousands of external contractors which are not reported anywhere.

And offshoring is also a huge cost-cutting effort everywhere.

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