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2026-11-12 13:01 utc · lightreading.com

Orange counts 10,000 fewer employees, blames everything but AI

The French telecom's headcount dropped by about 10,000 since ChatGPT's debut, the same pace it shed staff before anyone had heard of generative AI. Executives are chasing 'hundreds of millions' in AI value while insisting the people just happened to leave first.

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