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TechTimes' June 1 print puts 2026 tech cuts at 148,092 across 354 events at 981 jobs a day. Stanford's AI Index says the 22–25 software dev cohort has shrunk nearly 20% since 2024. Same arrow.

Vingroup subsidiary VinDynamics, founded September 2025, debuted its first humanoid robot Dyno at IEEE ICRA Vienna (June 1–5) and Computex Taipei (June 2–5) — alongside a Schaeffler partnership and a $12.75M US R&D investment.

MIT emeritus Paul Osterman told Fortune on May 31 that AI-blamed layoffs at Wix, Block, Snap, Atlassian and Cisco fit a 20-year corporate pattern of blaming technology for cost-driven cuts.

On Salesforce's May 27 Q1 FY27 call, Benioff said engineers have been flat at 15,000 for two years and the company is 「mostly expanding only in sales」 — while returning $27.5B to shareholders in the same quarter.

On June 1, Nvidia announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot — Unitree H2 Plus chassis, Sharpa five-finger hands, Jetson Thor compute — the same morning Shanghai's STAR Market reviewed Unitree's 4.2B yuan IPO.

Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi published a May 31 evaluation of Foundation's Phantom MK-1 humanoid deployment that names $150K unit price, 20-motor reliability risk, AI-hallucination concerns and the Ukrainian MoD's silence.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei publicly walked back their AI jobs apocalypse predictions in the same week — and the same week both companies began circulating IPO materials at trillion-dollar valuations.

Minute Media laid off about 12% of its workforce on May 29, with longtime Sports Illustrated writers Greg Bishop and Stephanie Apstein among the casualties — the company tied the cut to media-market shifts and the rise of AI.

On May 28, China's MIIT launched a national humanoid full-lifecycle platform issuing a 29-character ID to every robot. Over 100 firms have already enrolled 28,000+ units across 200 models.

Foundation Future Industries deployed two Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine for behind-the-line logistics runs, CNBC reported May 30 — the first known combat-theater humanoid deployment, with $24M in Pentagon research contracts already signed.

Amdocs is cutting 3,000 jobs — 10% of its 29,000-person workforce — under new CEO Shimie Hortig. It is the company's third layoff in three years and the first one formally branded as AI restructuring.

Honda's dexterous robotic hand threading a needle was the visual headline of Humanoids Summit Tokyo. The business headline was that Chinese platforms — Unitree, Booster, LimX, High Torque's $5,500 Mini Pi Plus — are dominating actual deployment.