Companies pushing employees to embrace artificial intelligence are simultaneously citing the technology as a reason for layoffs, creating a contradiction that workplace experts say is fueling worker r…
More than 35 companies, including Meta, Amazon, and Groupon, have laid off employees so far in 2026, continuing a trend of workforce reductions across tech, media, finance, and retail. Some firms, suc…
Wix is laying off approximately 20% of its workforce, or about 1,000 employees, CEO Avishai Abrahami announced in a memo to staff. Abrahami cited the rapid advancement of AI capabilities and the stren…
Companies are laying off significant portions of their workforce while publicly attributing the cuts to AI-driven productivity gains, a pattern observed at Amazon, Atlassian, Meta, and Block. GitHub r…
Nearly half of the 37,638 tech job cuts announced this year are directly linked to AI, as companies like Amazon, Meta, and Cisco slash payrolls to either replace workers with AI or fund AI infrastruct…
Block open-sourced Goose, an AI agent that scaled to 60% of Block's ~12,000 employees across 15 job profiles including engineering, sales, and product management. The key to adoption was a YAML-based …
Despite headlines attributing mass layoffs to AI, data shows only 5% of 2025 layoffs were AI-driven, totaling 54,836 jobs. Companies like Block, Klarna, and IBM used AI as a cover story to justify cut…
According to a Business Insider analysis of 15 layoff memos from companies like Block, Meta, and Disney in 2026, the word "AI" was the most frequently used term, appearing 46 times. Executives cited A…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard built on JSON-RPC 2.0 that unifies how AI agents connect to external systems, eliminating the need for custom integrations for each data sou…
In 2026, over 138,000 tech workers have been laid off across 324 companies, with major firms like Meta, Oracle, and Microsoft citing AI as a reason for flatter, smaller teams. The article warns that i…
Anthropic is now valued at $1-1.2 trillion after reporting 80x annualized growth in Q1, making it the 11th to 15th most valuable company in the world and overtaking OpenAI in valuation. Meanwhile, Blo…