AI Layoff Wave Reverses as Ford, IBM and Commonwealth Bank Rehire Staff

The applied lesson here is sharper than any lab benchmark, real companies bet on AI to cut headcount and then had to eat the cost of being wrong in public. It suggests the actual ceiling on AI automation right now is judgment calls and edge cases, not raw task throughput. Expect more of these quiet reversals to surface as the first wave of AI-driven layoffs hits its one-year mark.