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Published on 19.02.2026
TLDR: PwC spent $1 billion over three years to make all 75,000 U.S. employees AI-fluent, achieving 95% voluntary adoption and 360,000+ hours of training. Power users completed tasks 8x faster. Then the company laid off 1,500 people. This is not a failure story -- it is the clearest preview yet of what enterprise AI adoption actually looks like when you follow the math to its conclusion.
Link: PwC trained 95% of its workforce on AI, then started laying people off