AI & Jobs Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs to help pay its AI bill
Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its workforce, amid record AI infrastructure spending and a 30% stock slide.
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AI & Jobs Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its workforce, amid record AI infrastructure spending and a 30% stock slide.
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 Microsoft is cutting roughly 9,000 jobs across sales, consulting and Xbox gaming, redirecting payroll toward record AI spending in what has become an annual July restructuring.
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 Cisco filed WARN notices to cut 471 jobs across three California offices, part of a sub-4,000 global reduction the company attributes to reshaping around AI.
AI & Jobs Seattle customer-data startup Amperity confirmed layoffs it blames on an AI shift — landing two weeks after co-founders pushed out the CEO they hired in 2024.
AI & Jobs Culture Amp, which sells software for measuring employee engagement, has cut about 70 jobs in its third layoff round in three years.
AI & Jobs Amdocs is cutting roughly 3,000 jobs, its third annual layoff in a row — but the first one a new CEO has chosen to call an AI transition.
AI & Jobs ServiceNow laid off several hundred employees and credited the cuts to 'real AI efficiencies' from its own platform — its first layoff after CEO Bill McDermott's 2023 no-cuts promise.
AI & Jobs Robinhood laid off about 10% of its workforce from a position of record trading volume, and Vlad Tenev's memo never once said 'AI' — a conspicuous omission in 2026.
AI & Jobs Tech firms are cutting jobs and citing AI while the same technology mints a new class of overnight billionaires — and analysts are starting to call the gap dangerous.
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.