Traci Mumford

It's around 700 employees.

The company's CEO said the changes will lead to smaller teams, with humans managing the work of AI agents.

This follows other big job cuts or buyouts at companies like Microsoft and at Meta, which also attributed its cuts in part to AI and the need to embrace this new technology.

It's meant not just people losing their jobs, but also fewer job openings.

Ben Castleman is The Times' chief economics correspondent.

For the World Cup this year, which is kicking off in just over a month in the US, Mexico, and Canada, FIFA has made a big change from past tournaments.

It's using dynamic pricing for the first time ever.

That means tickets to see the most popular teams cost more.

To understand how that's hitting fans, the Times checked in with people in Argentina, where soccer is a national obsession.

— Argentina won the last World Cup, and that has pushed tickets for this year's games way up.

My colleague Tarek Panja, who was talking with fans, said some people are just giving up because it's too expensive.

Some said they'd paid less than $100 for tickets in the past.

Now they're looking at prices that are more than the average monthly salary in Argentina.

Others are going to extremes, racking up debt and maxing out credit cards in order to attend.

FIFA has repeatedly defended the high prices.

It says it needs the income to fund soccer development around the world.

But in the eyes of some Argentinian fans, it's a cash grab.

One fan who said he probably wouldn't go this year said, quote, it makes you angry that they take something that should be for everyone and turn it into something that is just for the few.

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