News / #layoff Tag Layoff 26 articles archived under #layoff · RSS Sign in to follow TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 19d ago Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor. 11 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems. 11 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) community 1mo ago XBOX Cuts; Bundling and the Internet Solvent; Transaction, Coordination, and Sunk Costs Microsoft's Xbox division is conducting big layoffs, as the company deals with abject failure of its Game Pass strategy. 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor. 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest. 24 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to SignalFire data. 32 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI. 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor. 10 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs. 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend. 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 2mo ago it sounds like Meta is abandoning in-house LLM development and reassigning those employees https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/zuckerberg-says-meta-made-mistakes-in-ai-workforce-shift-212324481.html He said Meta will try to find new roles for employees reassigned to train AI models, after the Facebook owner carried out a massive restructuring in… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Microsoft Has Considered Spinning Out Xbox, Plans New ‘Halo,’ ‘Fallout’ Games As Microsoft gets ready to overhaul its struggling Xbox gaming unit, it hasn’t ruled out spinning out or restructuring the unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, which could make it easier to sell, or creating a joint venture with other partners, according to three people with… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Xbox Plans Layoffs as Revenue, Profit Margins Decline Microsoft’s Xbox gaming unit plans to cut staff in the coming months as its financial picture worsens, according to someone with knowledge of the plans. In a note to staff Wednesday, CEO Asha Sharma said that Xbox’s “accountability margins”—a term Microsoft uses internally to… 30 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identify verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will downsize its staff. 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2mo ago Learning Geometric Representations from Videos for Spatial Intelligent Multimodal Large Language Models Abstract GeoVR enhances multimodal large language models with 3D awareness by restructuring their semantic latent space through geometric knowledge distillation from 3D foundation models using multiple geometric targets. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Multimodal… 30 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Snowflake CIO Says He Used Layoffs to Convince Staff to Use AI Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year, frequently citing AI as allowing them to do more with less people. In a variation on that approach Snowflake says it used layoffs to force software engineers to use AI tools and become… 15 r/MachineLearning community 2mo ago MiniMax dropped a new attention architecture. [N] It contains something interesting about context windows. They’re natively scaling to 1M tokens with MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) , bypassing standard quadratic complexity by completely restructuring the memory access patterns at the operator level. Instead of relying on… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago Attention Asymmetry in AI Layoff Discourse on X: A Computational Analysis of Capital vs Labour Amplification arXiv:2605.29367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When workers lose jobs to AI-driven restructuring, two very different conversations happen on X (formerly Twitter) at the same time. Tech executives and AI researchers talk about productivity, transformation, and opportunity.… 13 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 2mo ago A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer… 32 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents. 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Supervised Latent Restructuring for Small-Data Quantum Learning in Plant Phenomics arXiv:2605.20413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional biological data often exhibit a severe mismatch between feature dimensionality and sample size, making reliable classification difficult in extremely small-data regimes. In these settings, kernel methods can lose… 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Meta Shifts Thousands of Workers to New AI Groups as Layoffs Loom Meta Platforms is making broader organizational changes along with impending mass layoffs to better suit its structure to AI, a top executive told staff on Monday. The owner of Facebook and Instagram plans to detail cuts on Wednesday to about a tenth of its nearly 78,000… 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago SpaceX Launch, Google I/O Headline a Big News Week in Tech This should be an action-packed week in tech news, what with Nvidia’s first-quarter earnings, Google’s annual I/O developer conference and Meta Platforms’ scheduled layoffs of 8,000 employees. But it is Elon Musk who has the biggest week coming up. For one thing, the first test… 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 3mo ago The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These… 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’ This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth. 17 The Algorithmic Bridge news-outlet 4mo ago Weekly Top Picks #118 Anthropic's $30B revenue / China won the global race / AI scapegoating layoffs / Mythos / Gen Z against AI / "AI is conscious?" is the wrong question 16
