KI-Entlassungen diese Woche: 19. Okt. 2026 – 25. Okt. 2026

Das größte Ereignis der Woche war Barclays, mit 5.000 gestrichenen Stellen (Barclays said on October 22, alongside its Q3 results, that it would cut about 5,000 roles (~5% of its ~93,000 staff) by the end of 2026 — around 1,000 already gone in the first half. Roughly 60% are support functions, developers among them. The bank tied the cuts to organizational simplification and AI-driven efficiency gains, but CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan played down AI as the main driver ('AI is the icing on the cake, not the cake'), and the Unite union called AI 'an excuse' to shed staff. Restructuring costs run to roughly 600m pounds for 2026. Logged mixed.). Im Laufe der Woche betrafen die Streichungen finanzen.

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