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Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI 'productivity savings' amid slump in beer sales

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Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI 'productivity savings' amid slump in beer sales

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Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 24 days ago

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Heineken's CEO told CNBC that AI will play an "important part of ongoing productivity savings" after the brewer said it plans to cut up to 7% of its workforce.

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Maybe they think that when those people cannot find new jobs beer sales will rise again?
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  Historically, poverty and beer sales have been well correlated. But man, have you seen what a pint of beer costs now?

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