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AI & Jobs On September 30 Volkswagen confirmed it will end about ten collective agreements at year-end, leaving the 2030 job guarantee intact. Handelsblatt reported roughly 1,000 more cuts at software unit Cariad, out of about 4,300 staff; the union says 1,600 of 4,200. AI is not a stated reason.
AI & Jobs BLS's August JOLTS put US openings at 7.079M, down 256K, with layoffs at 1.64M and a 1.0% rate. Underneath, finance shows 353K openings against 110K hires, and information shows 123K openings against 44K hires.
AI & Jobs On September 28 Bosch told its Nuremberg workforce that about 900 of the plant's 1,800 jobs will go by 2029. The company cites the auto industry's transformation and price pressure from Chinese rivals, and never names AI.
AI & Jobs Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28. It scores 1,844 on GDPval-AA against 1,846 for Opus 5.5, at the same $2 and $10 per million tokens as Sonnet 5. It still trails the flagship on the hardest coding tests.
AI & Jobs On September 28 Stelco said it will idle Hamilton Works cold-rolling and coating indefinitely, with layoffs from October 9. The union counts 350 jobs; company-side coverage runs up to 500. The stated cause is U.S. tariffs, and no AI is cited.
AI & Jobs Disney's Legal & Global Affairs chief warned nearly 1,000 employees the department will become 「a much smaller organization than it is today.」 Disney gave no number and declined to comment. The memo is dated the same day Disney named its first-ever CTO, the former CEO of Character.AI.
AI & Jobs Bristol Myers Squibb filed a WARN notice on September 22, cutting 265 more jobs at its Princeton headquarters, its third New Jersey round this year, bringing 2026's total to 718. The company cites 「resource alignment」 and 「operating efficiency.」 It has not once said AI.
AI & Jobs On September 22, Xbox content chief Matt Booty told staff 268 roles were going, the next Halo moves to Activision, and Ninja Theory faces a proposed closure. Microsoft's company-wide cut came in under 600, about 300 of them in Washington state.
AI & Jobs Novo confirmed on September 21 that it has about 13,000 fewer full-time staff than a year ago, 4,000 more than the layoff it announced in 2025. Most of the extra 4,000 were roles it simply stopped refilling. The same day, its R&D deck credited AI with 10x faster clinical study reports.
AI & Jobs Paramount Skydance settled its antitrust lawsuit with 12 state attorneys general on September 21, clearing the final hurdle to its $110B acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement locks in a $47.5M worker fund and film-release quotas, but nothing in it stops the layoffs analysts and LA County both say are coming: as high as 4,500 jobs over three years.
AI & Jobs Volkswagen slashed its full-year profit guidance on September 21 and booked a nearly €6B Porsche writedown, sending both stocks lower. The same day, Germany's IG Metall union staged protests at more than 280 sites, with the works council chief saying 「the battle over how to share the burden has already begun.」
AI & Jobs CarMax eliminated 145 corporate positions on September 18, about 4% of its office staff, the third layoff round in under 11 months and 725 cumulative. The same quarter, net revenue rose 6.2% to $8.01B while net earnings fell 11.8%.