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AI & Jobs Etsy cut about 220 people, 12% of its workforce, in a letter to shareholders published August 5. CEO Kruti Patel Goyal ruled out both of the usual explanations. Revenue and EPS beat estimates the same day; net income flipped to a $46.7M loss.
AI & Jobs Zillow cut more than 500 people on August 4, about 7% of its global workforce and its largest round this year. The next day it posted 18% revenue growth and a 23% adjusted EBITDA margin. The company says AI had nothing to do with it.
AI & Jobs AI has been cited in over 100,000 US job cuts in 2026, but the ROI data behind those cuts is conspicuously missing.
AI & Jobs Walmart is laying off nearly 400 tech workers at eight Silicon Valley offices after an AI-driven reorg, while telling the WSJ the cuts aren't about AI replacing anyone.
AI & Jobs Entry-level job postings are down 35% since 2023 and recent-grad unemployment is climbing, but a Federal Reserve study of over a million firms found no link to AI.
AI & Jobs U.S. layoffs fell 53% in June to 45,849, but AI was the leading cited reason for the fourth month running and tech again led every sector.
AI & Jobs Tech executives increasingly blame AI for layoffs that have older, less flattering causes — over-hiring, failed bets and softening markets — analysts told the New York Times.
AI & Jobs A June survey of 500 US adults found 87% want a human to sign off on any AI-recommended layoff, and most doubt AI is the real reason at all.
AI & Jobs 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.
AI & Jobs Intuit cut ~3,000 jobs (17% of 18,200) on the same day it reported Q3 earnings. CEO Goodarzi told Cramer 「None of it had to do with AI」 — while the internal memo, the Anthropic + OpenAI partnerships, and the Reno + Woodland Hills office closures say otherwise.
AI & Jobs Gartner surveyed 350 executives at $1B+ companies. 80% who piloted AI cut staff. The cut rate is the same for high-ROI and low-ROI groups. The same week, Dario Amodei walks back his 「half of white-collar jobs」 prediction. Both stories landed on May 11.
AI & Jobs Two big mainstream business outlets — AOL Finance and CEOWORLD — both published the same thesis on May 3, 2026: the 80,000 Q1 tech layoffs are not really about AI, they are about pandemic-era overhiring being unwound under cover of an AI narrative that 「plays better with stakeholders」. The thesis is six weeks old (Andreessen) and three months old (Altman). The Sunday timing is what changed.