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Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it

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According to CNBC, companies that laid off workers expecting AI to replace them are now walking that back. The hard lesson: artificial intelligence, for all its capability, can't handle everything a business needs. The result? Employers are rehiring the people they fired, discovering that automation has genuine limits. It's a reality check on years of overpromising.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-wo...

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