layoffs

"Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs to address funding pressures from its large-scale AI data center expansion plan."

"Block announced layoffs of approximately 4000 people, from 10,000 to 6,000, due to the company developing its own AI tool named 'Goose,' which significantly increased efficiency and replaced a considerable number of employees."

"Jack Dorsey made a prediction, influenced by the development of artificial intelligence technology, that most companies will make similar structural personnel adjustments within the next year."

"Dorsey said: "I'd rather be transparently and at our own pace get there, than be forced into it passively.""

"Today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000,"

"By 2025, when companies in the US announced 55,000 layoffs, the direct reason for the layoffs was attributed to Artificial Intelligence, which is more than 12 times the number of people laid off due to AI two years ago."

"Intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working"

""We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.""

"While AI does play a role, according to the author of this video, it is more of an accelerator than a trigger."

""For some period of time I can recall that we were backfilling that expectation with laying cables, something like 2,200 miles of cable an hour," AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong said."

"Altman would continue to make news throughout the summit for his comments on the industry’s “urgent” need for global regulation and his sneaking suspicion that companies might actually be using AI as a scapegoat to whitewash their layoffs."

"“I don't know the exact proportion, but there is some degree of 'AI reshuffling' going on—some companies are blaming AI for layoffs that would have happened anyway, and there is also a genuine replacement of some jobs by AI.”"

"I don't know the exact percentage, but there's some AI-washing going on, where people are blaming AI for layoffs that would have happened anyway, and AI is replacing some different types of work."

"Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs."

""We’ll find new kinds of jobs, as we do with every tech revolution," he added."

"He raised his belief that so-called “AI washing,” where AI is being falsely blamed for layoffs in some businesses, is being used as an excuse to reduce headcounts."

"Despite layoffs attributed to surging use of AI, employers may be placating investors by using AI as an excuse for failings elsewhere."

"New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has."

"As a global automotive component supplier, Bosch's layoffs are no secret - they announced 9,000 layoffs in Germany in 2024, adding 13,000 more in 2025."

"Executives, saying they anticipate huge changes from the technology, are making cuts now."

"Molly Kinder, a senior research fellow at the Brookings Institute, noted that saying layoffs were caused by AI is a “very investor-friendly message,” especially when the alternative might mean admitting, “The business is ailing.”"

"According to the report, 52% of game industry professionals now believe [Generative AI] is bad for the industry, up from 30% last year."

"Based on responses from more than 2,300 gaming industry professionals, with surveys "customized for each participant group, ensuring that developers, marketers, executives, investors and others answered questions most relevant to them," the 2026 State of the Game Industry Report found that 33% of respondents in the U.S. were laid off in the past two years."

"Truth to be told tech market hasn’t truly ‘improved’ since the 2008 financial crisis."

"Amazon announced that it will affect 16,000 white-collar employees."

"We're starting to see projects that used to take big teams now be accomplished by a single, very talented person."

"Amazon announced it will again cut 16,000 employees."

"Amazon said the cuts will affect 16,000 corporate jobs."

"ASML said in its press release."

"Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees as AI battle intensifies."