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Story summary
- Since March 2025, over 160 New York state companies, including Amazon and Goldman Sachs, have announced mass layoffs.
- None attributed cuts to technological innovation or automation, despite the option existing for 11 months.
- Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, has ordered the Department of Labor to investigate whether AI is driving layoffs.
- New York is the first state to include this option in Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings (WARN).
