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Groupon Cuts 400 to Fund Project Foundry, Stock Pops 5% AI & Jobs

Groupon Cuts 400 to Fund Project Foundry, Stock Pops 5%

Groupon filed an 8-K on May 21 announcing up to 400 cuts — about a quarter of its ~1,734-employee base — to fund Project Foundry, its AI-native rebuild. The stock popped 5% premarket on May 27. The COO resigned the same day.

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Acrisure Lays Off 2,250 People — 11% Of Its 20,450-Person Global Workforce — Five Days After Lionel Richie Christened The $184M Acrisure Amphitheater In Grand Rapids; CEO Greg Williams Cites 「Technology, AI And Digital Platforms」 In May 20 Memo, Phased Through 2027 AI & Jobs

Acrisure Lays Off 2,250 People — 11% Of Its 20,450-Person Global Workforce — Five Days After Lionel Richie Christened The $184M Acrisure Amphitheater In Grand Rapids; CEO Greg Williams Cites 「Technology, AI And Digital Platforms」 In May 20 Memo, Phased Through 2027

The world's 8th-largest insurance broker is cutting 2,250 jobs over 11% of its workforce, blaming AI. The Acrisure Amphitheater opened five days earlier with a Lionel Richie concert.

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Standard Chartered Becomes the First Global Bank to Put a Number on AI Layoffs: 7,000+ Corporate-Function Cuts by 2030, ~15% of a 52,271-Person Back Office, Hong Kong Investor Day May 19 — Winters 「Replacing Lower-Value Human Capital with Financial Capital」 and 「Job Role Reductions in Favor of the Machines」, From a Record-Earnings Position, Not Distress AI & Jobs

Standard Chartered Becomes the First Global Bank to Put a Number on AI Layoffs: 7,000+ Corporate-Function Cuts by 2030, ~15% of a 52,271-Person Back Office, Hong Kong Investor Day May 19 — Winters 「Replacing Lower-Value Human Capital with Financial Capital」 and 「Job Role Reductions in Favor of the Machines」, From a Record-Earnings Position, Not Distress

Standard Chartered attached a number and a year to AI-driven layoffs at its Hong Kong investor day: 7,000+ corporate-function cuts by 2030, ~15% of a 52,271-person back office. CEO Bill Winters called it 「replacing lower-value human capital」 and 「job role reductions in favor of the machines」. From a record-earnings position, not distress.

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The AI Disclosure Gap, May 18: 113,863 Tech Layoffs and No Federal Law Says Companies Have to Tell You Whether AI Did It — PREPARE Act (S.3339) Stalled in Senate, Colorado AI Act Paused by Federal Court April 27 and Replaced by SB 189, California SB 951 90-Day Notice Bill Still in Committee — Cisco's CFO Insists the Cuts Are 「Not Savings-Driven」 and No Worker Has Any Way to Audit That AI & Jobs
Wall Street's Verdict, May 17: CNBC Counts 56% of AI-Layoff Stocks in the Red Post-Announcement — Nike -35%, Salesforce -32%, Fiverr Down, Average Decline ~25% Among Fallers — Cisco's +20% After-Hours Pop on $5.3B AI Orders the Cleanest Counter-Example AI & Jobs

Wall Street's Verdict, May 17: CNBC Counts 56% of AI-Layoff Stocks in the Red Post-Announcement — Nike -35%, Salesforce -32%, Fiverr Down, Average Decline ~25% Among Fallers — Cisco's +20% After-Hours Pop on $5.3B AI Orders the Cleanest Counter-Example

CNBC's May 17 tally: 56% of companies that announced AI-linked layoffs have traded in the red since — average decline 25% — with Nike off 35% and Salesforce off 32%. The market is not paying for the press release.

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Meta's May 20 Cut Lands, Zuckerberg Town Hall: 「Two Cost Centers — Compute Infrastructure and People」 — Same-Week Capex Bumped to $125–145B from $115–135B, ~8,000 Out (~10%), Severance Is 16 Weeks + 18 Months Health Care AI & Jobs

Meta's May 20 Cut Lands, Zuckerberg Town Hall: 「Two Cost Centers — Compute Infrastructure and People」 — Same-Week Capex Bumped to $125–145B from $115–135B, ~8,000 Out (~10%), Severance Is 16 Weeks + 18 Months Health Care

Meta starts cutting ~8,000 roles on Wednesday. The same week, capex guidance was raised to $125–145B. Zuckerberg told staff the company has 「two cost centers — compute and people」 and refused to rule out more cuts.

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UKG Just Laid Off 950 People While Describing Itself as an 「AI-First Company」. It Sells HR Software. Think About That For a Second. AI & Jobs

UKG Just Laid Off 950 People While Describing Itself as an 「AI-First Company」. It Sells HR Software. Think About That For a Second.

UKG — the $3.4B ARR HR and workforce-management vendor whose product exists to help other companies manage, schedule, and lay off their employees — emailed 950 of its own workers on April 15 to tell them they were being cut as part of an 'AI-first' transformation. It is the second time in 18 months UKG has done this.

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