

To me, it is just making the M7 stocks meme stocks. None of them have proven themselves yet. It is all just hype currently. Part of the reason for their layoffs is literally to refocus on AI, not because AI replaced their roles.
I question how this plays out longer term once interest rates are dropped and tariffs are likely struck down. I don’t see AI replacing many roles.
What you’re disregarding is Covid era over hiring, higher interest rates, and the world wide tariffs that killed off the labor market. There was a downward trend well before OpenAI launched Chat and kicked off the LLM/AI hype train. There have been the most layoffs this year since 2020 on top of that.