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AI & Jobs ADP reported 90,000 private-sector jobs for September on September 30, up from an August total revised to 36,000. Financial activities lost 16,000 and professional and business services lost 11,000, while manufacturing flipped from a 17,000 loss to a 17,000 gain.
AI & Jobs BioMarin will lay off 117 employees at its Novato, California plant, effective December 4, according to a WARN notice reported by Fierce Pharma. The company says it is consolidating its footprint. No source names AI or automation as a reason.
AI & Jobs Blaize said on September 30 it will cut about 26% of its workforce, for $1.1M to $1.3M in charges and $7.5M to $8.4M in annual savings. It follows an August guidance cut from $130M to $40M to $43M, and the filing does not name AI as a reason.
AI & Jobs On September 30 BMW Group said it will cut divisions and associated management roles by 20% by mid-2027, with comparable reductions below, and tied the leaner structure to agentic AI. The release gives no headcount; the 8,000-job figure dates from July.
AI & Jobs Google published Gemini 4 Argon on September 30. Its table has the model at 19.6% on Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark and 51.3% on AutomationBench, ahead of every rival listed. Access is limited to vetted cyber defenders for now.
AI & Jobs On September 30 Greggs proposed closing four manufacturing sites with about 740 jobs at risk, at a cost of around £60m and savings of about £20m across 2028 and 2029. The same statement reported sales up 7.7% in the quarter to September 26. No source names AI or automation as a reason.
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.