Microsoft president says AI backlash at graduation events should be wake-up call for the tech industry
Young people aren't anti-AI, Brad Smith argues – they're anti-replacement
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.
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.
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.
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
Which tech company invented work-from-home, then killed it?
Before Zoom was popular, this tech giant had 40% of its workforce remote. Then came the reversal.
Google says AI now generates 75% of its new code, up from 25% in 2024
Engineers review and guide output while internal models handle generation, refactoring, and migration tasks
Everything is becoming agentic, and we're not fully ready for it
The big picture: If you follow tech news, it's impossible to miss how quickly everything is becoming "agentic." AI agents are being folded into major platforms, operating systems, browsers, and just about every category of software. In many ways, the shift is already tangible.
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
Tech hiring evolves as candidates ask for AI compute alongside pay and perks
Engineers want to know how much GPU and inference capacity they will get on the job
Tech worker confidence falls faster than any other industry, survey finds
Fears over layoffs and automation are dragging confidence down
Washington state bill would ban employers from forcibly microchipping workers
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
Use of AI in the workplace triples in two years, with tech and finance leading the charge
Gallup finds that 25% of US workers now use AI frequently, but adoption remains uneven across sectors
Lawsuit targets AI hiring systems used by Microsoft and Salesforce
In context: In California, a lawsuit against one of the most widely used AI hiring systems could reshape how companies deploy algorithms to evaluate candidates. Eightfold AI, a Santa Clara-based platform that assists employers such as Microsoft, PayPal, Salesforce, and Bayer in ranking applicants, is accused of generating undisclosed reports on job seekers without their consent – a practice the plaintiffs claim violates federal consumer protection law.
OpenAI's employee compensation dwarfs every major tech IPO of the past 25 years
Equity pay packages are 34 times higher than pre-IPO tech norms
Bottom line: OpenAI's financial model reflects the intense pressure to retain the people driving its breakthroughs. The company's willingness to spend aggressively on equity has redefined what competitive pay looks like in artificial intelligence – and raised the stakes for every firm vying to shape the field's future.
xAI employee praised by collegues for working 36 hours without sleep
One employee mocked work-life balance
Microsoft Teams may soon tell your boss when you enter or leave the office
New location detection feature is sparking worries about employee surveillance
MIT study says agentic AI can already replace 11% of the US workforce
A reliable prediction about the future of work, or just a speculative sandbox toy?
Infosys co-founder hikes 70-hour workweek call to 72 hours, praises China's 996 model
Who needs a life when you can work?
Intern quits after employer demands he hand over RTX 5060 won at Nvidia event
Would you do the same?
Boot up, VPN, multi-password logins, and zero pay: Bank of America hit with wage lawsuit
Bank of America accused of making remote workers log in for free before shifts even start
A new bipartisan bill would force companies to reveal how AI is impacting jobs
Is AI really having a massive impact on the US workforce?
New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations
A rebounding "layoff boomerang" despite corporate AI investments