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Snap Inc. is eliminating roughly 1,000 positions — 16% of its full-time workforce — while citing AI-driven efficiency gains, but the cuts follow weeks of pressure from activist investor Irenic Capital and come amid persistent operating losses and a stock down 31% year-to-date. The move mirrors a broader pattern across the tech industry, where companies including Meta, Amazon, and Block have collectively cut tens of thousands of jobs while invoking AI as the rationale, even as labor economists debate whether automation or cyclical cost pressures are the true driver.

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