News / #layoff Tag Layoff 33 articles archived under #layoff · RSS Sign in to follow The Information — AI news-outlet 2d ago Trump Administration Plans to Move AI Testing Agency Officials to White House The small agency within the Commerce Department tasked with testing new AI models appears to be getting a refresh. In September, the Trump administration began the process of restructuring the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence so that three of… 29 The Information — AI news-outlet 2d ago Trump Administration Plans to Move AI Testing Agency Officials to White House The small agency within the Commerce Department tasked with testing new AI models appears to be getting a refresh. In September, the Trump administration began the process of restructuring the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence so that three of… 20 The Information — AI news-outlet 7d ago HubSpot Lays Off 7% of Workforce, Says It’s Not Because of AI Software provider HubSpot is laying off 660 employees, or 7% of its staff, as part of a restructuring that will include eliminating some management layers and reorganizing product teams, CEO Yamini Rangan announced in a blog post. The job cuts are “not simply a cost-cutting… 19 The Information — AI news-outlet 8d ago Anthropic Expands Cyberdefenders’ Access to Top Models Anthropic said it is expanding and restructuring its cybersecurity access programs to enable more cyberdefenders to use its most advanced Claude models to secure their systems against potential AI attacks. Under the changes, announced Tuesday, all members of Anthropic’s Cyber… 36 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 8d ago b11434: hexagon: ssm-conv updates (#29971) hexagon: ssm-conv double-buffered DMA for prefill and decode restructuring hex-ssm-conv: remove divs from loops and fix trace events hex-dma: improved SSM_CONV dma pipeline and streamlined dma_queue Co-authored-by: Max Krasnyansky maxk@qti.qualcomm.com 32 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 12d ago Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass Your next opportunity could be one conversation away. Get your Expo+ Pass for just $75. Limited to the first 100 qualifying people. 15 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 19d ago Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass Your next opportunity could be one conversation away. Get your Expo+ Pass for just $75. Limited to the first 100 qualifying people. 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor. 11 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems. 11 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) community 3mo ago XBOX Cuts; Bundling and the Internet Solvent; Transaction, Coordination, and Sunk Costs Microsoft's Xbox division is conducting big layoffs, as the company deals with abject failure of its Game Pass strategy. 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor. 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest. 24 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to SignalFire data. 32 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI. 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor. 10 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs. 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend. 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago it sounds like Meta is abandoning in-house LLM development and reassigning those employees https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/zuckerberg-says-meta-made-mistakes-in-ai-workforce-shift-212324481.html He said Meta will try to find new roles for employees reassigned to train AI models, after the Facebook owner carried out a massive restructuring in… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Microsoft Has Considered Spinning Out Xbox, Plans New ‘Halo,’ ‘Fallout’ Games As Microsoft gets ready to overhaul its struggling Xbox gaming unit, it hasn’t ruled out spinning out or restructuring the unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, which could make it easier to sell, or creating a joint venture with other partners, according to three people with… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Xbox Plans Layoffs as Revenue, Profit Margins Decline Microsoft’s Xbox gaming unit plans to cut staff in the coming months as its financial picture worsens, according to someone with knowledge of the plans. In a note to staff Wednesday, CEO Asha Sharma said that Xbox’s “accountability margins”—a term Microsoft uses internally to… 30 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identify verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will downsize its staff. 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4mo ago Learning Geometric Representations from Videos for Spatial Intelligent Multimodal Large Language Models Abstract GeoVR enhances multimodal large language models with 3D awareness by restructuring their semantic latent space through geometric knowledge distillation from 3D foundation models using multiple geometric targets. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Multimodal… 30 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Snowflake CIO Says He Used Layoffs to Convince Staff to Use AI Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year, frequently citing AI as allowing them to do more with less people. In a variation on that approach Snowflake says it used layoffs to force software engineers to use AI tools and become… 15 r/MachineLearning community 4mo ago MiniMax dropped a new attention architecture. [N] It contains something interesting about context windows. They’re natively scaling to 1M tokens with MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) , bypassing standard quadratic complexity by completely restructuring the memory access patterns at the operator level. Instead of relying on… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4mo ago Attention Asymmetry in AI Layoff Discourse on X: A Computational Analysis of Capital vs Labour Amplification arXiv:2605.29367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When workers lose jobs to AI-driven restructuring, two very different conversations happen on X (formerly Twitter) at the same time. Tech executives and AI researchers talk about productivity, transformation, and opportunity.… 13 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 4mo ago A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer… 32 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents. 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago Supervised Latent Restructuring for Small-Data Quantum Learning in Plant Phenomics arXiv:2605.20413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional biological data often exhibit a severe mismatch between feature dimensionality and sample size, making reliable classification difficult in extremely small-data regimes. In these settings, kernel methods can lose… 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Meta Shifts Thousands of Workers to New AI Groups as Layoffs Loom Meta Platforms is making broader organizational changes along with impending mass layoffs to better suit its structure to AI, a top executive told staff on Monday. The owner of Facebook and Instagram plans to detail cuts on Wednesday to about a tenth of its nearly 78,000… 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago SpaceX Launch, Google I/O Headline a Big News Week in Tech This should be an action-packed week in tech news, what with Nvidia’s first-quarter earnings, Google’s annual I/O developer conference and Meta Platforms’ scheduled layoffs of 8,000 employees. But it is Elon Musk who has the biggest week coming up. For one thing, the first test… 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 5mo ago The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These… 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 5mo ago Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’ This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth. 17 The Algorithmic Bridge news-outlet 6mo ago Weekly Top Picks #118 Anthropic's $30B revenue / China won the global race / AI scapegoating layoffs / Mythos / Gen Z against AI / "AI is conscious?" is the wrong question 16
