Ubisoft to cut 380 jobs and shut down studios in Canada and Serbia, report claims
The company also moved more than 100 developers from Rainbow Six Siege to other projects
Xbox is planning major layoffs and hinting at "radically different" console business model
Microsoft's gaming division spent $20 billion in five years and lost $500 million in revenue
The AI boomerang effect: more data suggests employers are reversing AI layoffs
Studies find up to 50% of companies that replaced workers with AI are rehiring or expressing regret
Connecting the dots: Generative AI has been blamed for hundreds of thousands of layoffs over the past year, but evidence that companies moved too quickly to automate white-collar jobs is steadily mounting. Multiple recent studies suggest that many employers are refilling recently eliminated positions after overestimating AI's productivity gains and cost savings.
A top economist says there's "zero evidence" AI is killing jobs, despite thousands of actual layoffs
Apollo's Torsten Sløk argues the AI boom is boosting employment
Wix lays off 1,000 workers as the AI jobs apocalypse keeps looking very real
Sam Altman said the AI jobs apocalypse had not arrived (yet?)
Sam Altman is "delighted" his AI jobs apocalypse prediction was wrong
Was it?
A hot potato: OpenAI boss Sam Altman says he is delighted that the AI-caused jobs apocalypse he predicted has not come to pass – news that's unlikely to reassure anyone who's lost their job because of AI. It appears that the CEO's taking the view that although things are pretty bad, they're really not as bad as he expected.
99% of executives expect AI to trigger layoffs within two years, survey finds
Report also finds employee "thriving" has collapsed from 66% to 44% since 2024
Tech layoffs have already passed 100,000 in 2026 as the industry cuts jobs to fund AI
Meta, Cisco, Intuit, and PayPal lead a wave – 2026 is shaping up to be brutal
A hot potato: Tech sector job losses in early 2026 have already surged past 100,000, and the past month suggests the trend is not subsiding. While AI automation is likely not the sole cause, aggregated reports suggest it is the leading factor, with Meta's transition into an "AI-first" company headlining May's damage to the job market.
Intuit cuts 3,000 jobs as it refocuses on AI, but says layoffs are "not about AI"
The cuts affect thousands of workers across the TurboTax, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma parent
Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to AI jobs while laying off thousands more
At Meta, employees are either losing jobs to AI or being reassigned to build it
Anthropic says more than 90% of its code is now written by AI
The claim comes as Google, Microsoft, Snap, and others boast about rising levels of AI-generated code
Two brothers deleted 96 federal databases after being fired – one googled how to hide the evidence afterward
Government contractor unknowingly hired felons who hacked the government in 2015
Meta is using its own employees' activity to train AI, and laying off 8,000 of them at the same time
Employees are calling the changes "incredibly demoralizing"
A Chinese court just ruled companies can't fire workers simply because AI can replace them
AI automation is a business choice, not a legal excuse for firing staff
Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage
The same firm that helped train ChatGPT is now at the center of Meta's smart glasses privacy scandal
Palit confirms Galax brand will continue after takeover confusion, promises support for existing products
Reports of Galax's death may have been greatly exaggerated
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to thousands of US workers as AI spending takes priority
The first in Microsoft's 51-year history
Meta to cut 8,000 jobs to bankroll its AI ambitions
The cuts come as Meta ramps up spending on compute, AI agents, and multibillion-dollar partnerships
Tech layoffs are piling up: 80,000 jobs cut in early 2026, and AI is getting the blame
Experts say restructuring and overhiring are still major drivers
Take-Two lays off AI team members weeks after "embracing" generative AI
The cuts include Take-Two's head of AI and come weeks after executives publicly backed the technology
Oracle layoffs could reach 30,000 as company doubles down on AI
Job cuts follow massive investment in AI data centers and automation initiatives
Americans are using AI more, but fear of job losses is growing
70% of Americans fear AI will cut job opportunities, while 30% say it could make their jobs obsolete
$1,000-a-month basic income program launches for workers displaced by AI
Organizers hope AI firms will help fund the program
Recap: One suggestion for helping the many thousands of people laid off or unable to find a job because of AI has long been a basic income program. That plan is no longer a theoretical proposition: it started running this week, though recipient numbers are currently low.
Epic cuts 1,000+ jobs amid financial struggles, seeks half-billion-dollar cost savings
Epic was spending more than it brought in
Oracle prepares new round of layoffs while doubling down on AI infrastructure
A $2.1 billion restructuring budget signals deeper workforce cuts