Comcast cut 30 million service calls with AI as it preps cable layoffs

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    "excerpt": "Comcast says AI chatbots already erased 30 million customer service interactions this year. Now it's about to cut the people who used to handle them. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in the third quarter, a worse result than the 91,000 it lost a year earlier and well past the 116,800 drop that analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected. On the same earnings call, CFO Jason Armstrong told investors the company expects a restructuring charge of \"over $1 billion\" in the fourth quarter, tied to what Comcast is calling its transformation effort. Layoffs are coming within weeks, according to Fierce Network, and they'll land hardest on Comcast Cable, the connectivity business that's about to go it alone once NBCUniversal and Sky spin off into a separate public company in 2027. The company isn't hiding what's replacing some of that headcount. Comcast says its customer service contact rate is down 20% this year, and it has eliminated more than 30 million service interactions year to date compared with 2025, according to Customer Experience Dive. Those aren't modest efficiency gains from a new phone menu. That's the scale of a company quietly moving a huge chunk of its support volume away from humans and onto software. Two vendors are doing the work. Cresta, a Palo Alto AI company that Comcast Ventures backed in a $125 million Series D round in November 2024, handles...",
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