Hiring
50 briefings
November 2026 · 1
October 2026 · 10
- Oct 30Cisco gives one 27-year-old engineer unlimited tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code in 24 months (Oct 30)
- Oct 29Amazon tells engineers to stop "tokenmaxxing" and judge AI by long-term outcomes
- Oct 27Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees across four countries
- Oct 22Qualcomm will cut jobs worldwide after annual reviews, notifying staff from November
- Oct 19Disney will hire at least 60 Character.AI employees from its bankruptcy
- Oct 18Anthropic's own data: junior technical hiring fell from 27% to 9% of hires, and agents now work six hours for every human hour
- Oct 15a16z cuts most of its 34-person portfolio recruiting team
- Oct 14Judge orders OpenAI to hand Apple hiring records in trade-secrets case
- Oct 9US suspends Microsoft, Adobe and major IT outsourcers from the green-card labor certification program
- Oct 6Anthropic commits $100M to train 10,000+ "frontier deployed engineers" by end of 2027
September 2026 · 4
- Sep 21South Korea revives military-service exemption for AI researchers after a 14-year gap
- Sep 15Update — Oracle's cuts moved from projection to notices
- Sep 13Two more safety researchers left Anthropic and Google DeepMind for METR on the same day
- Sep 6Uber cut 3,300 jobs — 10% of staff — and pointedly did not blame AI
August 2026 · 4
- Aug 22Apple cuts 200+ jobs across Siri, Vision Pro, and Intelligent Systems Experience
- Aug 20Forrester ships an "AI Disruption Model" and puts software development services in the disrupted column
- Aug 16AI is closing the entry-level door that produces the people who supervise AI
- Aug 13AI-cited layoffs top 165K in 2026, but engineers stay in demand
July 2026 · 7
- Jul 31AI-cited engineering layoffs continue
- Jul 27AI-cited tech layoffs pass a grim milestone; July cuts up 48% MoM
- Jul 23AI-cited tech layoffs keep mounting in 2026
- Jul 9AI-cited tech layoffs keep climbing
- Jul 5Tesla caps employee AI spend at $200/week (effective July 6)
- Jul 3June jobs: AI leads layoff reasons for a 4th straight month
- Jul 1AI-cited layoffs top 75k for 2026 — but engineering is the most resilient function
June 2026 · 7
- Jun 30Google reorgs its AI coding "strike team" into midtraining; 6th DeepMind researcher surfaces at Meta
- Jun 26Google's researcher exodus widens; Alphabet sheds ~$270B; Gemini 3.5 Pro slips to July
- Jun 21Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research
- Jun 19AI-cited layoffs keep climbing — even as IBM triples entry-level hiring
- Jun 92026 AI-attributed layoffs: 55% of all tech cuts cite AI
- Jun 6AI-attributed layoffs hit ~80K workers in 2026
- Jun 2Tech layoffs paradox: 148K displaced in 2026, ML hiring up 59%
May 2026 · 4
April 2026 · 13
- Apr 30Q1 2026: 80,000 tech workers laid off, ~50% attributed to AI
- Apr 29Salesforce hires 1,000 new grads while others cut
- Apr 28Snap cuts 1,000 jobs, explicitly cites AI
- Apr 26Microsoft opens "Rule of 70" voluntary buyout to ~8,750 US employees
- Apr 24Meta lays off 8,000 (10% of workforce), effective May 20
- Apr 21Tech layoffs Q1: ~78.5K cut, ~48% attributed to AI
- Apr 19Snap cuts 1,000 jobs (16% of workforce), cites AI productivity
- Apr 15Tech Q1 2026: 78K layoffs, 48% AI-attributed
- Apr 13Tech layoffs: 78,500 in Q1, ~48% AI-attributed
- Apr 10Oracle: ~30,000 layoffs to fund AI infrastructure
- Apr 7AI-driven layoffs accelerating
- Apr 652K tech layoffs in Q1 2026
- Apr 552K tech layoffs in Q1 2026