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Amazon AGI Lab Finds Humans Optional, Lays Off Builders

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Register ·

Amazon's AGI department concluded that human involvement is unnecessary for its AI systems, leading to layoffs among the teams building them. The company reaffirms AI as its biggest bet despite the cuts. This marks another round of job reductions at the tech giant.

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The irony of an AGI team rendering its own creators redundant underscores the brutal efficiency drive at Amazon, where even AI's architects aren't safe from automation.
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