The dead pool for human labor. The companies are fine. You are the layoff.
9 filings · 117,835 humans automated on record.
2026-10-08 08:01 utc · ndtv.com
Customer service, selling partner services, and marketplace support teams in India, the US, and UK got cut just as the Great Indian Festival sale kicks off. Nothing says festive cheer like a layoff timed to the quarter's busiest traffic.
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2026-10-02 17:02 utc · lengsb24.com
Project Trident, Amazon Game Studios' Shadow of the Colossus-inspired bet, got reshaped around a generative AI mandate and then canceled outright. The pivot came first, the pink slips came quieter.
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2026-09-13 20:01 utc · reportersatlarge.com
The e-commerce giant joined the parade of firms discovering that 'AI impact on jobs' sounds more like a white paper than a severance package. Up to 60 percent of roles in advanced economies face 'vulnerability to automation,' per government report, which is consultant-speak for fucked.
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2026-09-02 20:01 utc · economictimes.indiatimes.com
Mechanical Turk, the platform that once paid humans pennies to label images and transcribe receipts, closes in September 2026. Turns out those 500,000 workers were just training their replacements. The irony of calling it 'artificial artificial intelligence' has finally resolved itself.
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2026-09-01 03:01 utc · komonews.com
The company filed WARN notices for 121 workers while its AI push continues indefinitely. Permanent and temporary turn out to mean different things depending on which side of the algorithm you're on.
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2026-08-24 15:01 utc · johngself.substack.com
U.S. employers explicitly blamed artificial intelligence for nearly 88,000 planned cuts. Meanwhile, the man with the half-million-dollar honeymoon yacht would like you to focus on the potential.
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2026-07-22 20:01 utc · cnbc.com
The unit building artificial general intelligence cut some of its own humans, presumably to test whether the models can train themselves. The irony budget remains fully funded.
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2026-07-14 13:00 utc · techtimes.com
The CEO noted that generative AI agents were absorbing functions previously handled by humans, which is a polite way of saying the agents are now handling the humans' mortgages too. Nobel economists who once doubted AI job fears have filed an amended opinion.
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2026-07-09 12:02 utc · finance.yahoo.com
The e-everything giant shed 16,000 workers this year in what executives are calling an AI efficiency push. The efficiency, sources confirm, is that severance costs less than salaries.
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