AI layoffs this week: Sep 29, 2025 – Oct 5, 2025

The largest event of the week was Lufthansa Group, with 4,000 roles cut (At its Capital Markets Day Lufthansa announced 4,000 administrative job cuts by 2030 (mostly in Germany), explicitly citing efficiency gains from digitalization and AI alongside consolidation of duplicated roles - one of the first major airlines to link job cuts to AI.). Across the week, cuts touched transport.

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