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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%.
AI & Jobs On September 15 Adecco said it is putting Salesforce's Agentforce Coworker in front of 27,000 employees. Buried further down: agentic AI is already live in recruitment workflows in 10 countries carrying 50% of Adecco business revenues.
AI & Jobs Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking on September 15, with Extended Thinking taking first place on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index at 82.6. At the published per-minute rates, an hour of two-way audio runs about $1.38.
AI & Jobs On September 15 the Financial Times reported KPMG UK will cut about 200 advisory roles, roughly 4% of the practice, with AI and cybersecurity specialists among those affected. A KPMG spokesperson cited 「low levels of attrition」 alongside a 3% drop in advisory revenue.
AI & Jobs At Dreamforce '26 in San Francisco on September 15, Salesforce launched AIforce and said AI is going to replace the user interface. Workers update records and trigger workflows from Claude or Slack without opening Salesforce at all.
AI & Jobs At Dreamforce on September 15, Siemens said an engagement agent and a qualification agent now handle its entire inbound funnel for 18,000 sellers. Still unshipped: Piper, which the release calls 「an AI SDR agent」.
AI & Jobs Andon Labs opened Pion on September 14, a waitlisted platform for handing a business to persistent agents. The same week, a reporter walked into the company's own AI-run San Francisco shop and found no customers and $60,000 left of the original $100,000.