Barclays CEO: AI Is 'Icing On The Cake' While Axing 5,000 Jobs

$3.1B in profit, £2.8B for shareholders, and 5,000 workers told their jobs are the cost of modernization.

Dissenter News·Published October 22, 2026·1 min read

Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan called artificial intelligence the

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Barclays CEO Calls AI ‘Icing On The Cake’ As 5,000 Jobs Get Axed
Technology | The Guardian
Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as bank’s bosses hail AI productivity advances

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