AI impact in the United States
Tracking AI-driven job losses and impacts in the United States: 88 reports, 45,417 jobs affected in sourced events. Posted and discussed by the people affected.
Verified AI job losses in United States
Reports and discussion
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Coinbase cut 700 jobs and told the SEC it was reorganising the company for the AI era
Coinbase cut about 700 employees, roughly 14% of its global workforce, on May 5, 2026. Its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission gave two reasons: managing operatin…
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Upwork cut about a quarter of its staff, with its CEO saying AI lets smaller teams do more
Upwork is laying off approximately a quarter of its workforce, chief executive Hayden Brown told employees on May 7, 2026, in a message the company published. She gave two reasons:…
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Meta planned for AI to take over thousands of people's daily work, then shelved its second layoff wave
Meta spent the first half of 2026 planning to hand much of its employees' daily work to AI agents, according to a Reuters special report built on internal documents, recordings and…
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McClatchy cuts more than 90 journalists months after launching an AI tool its reporters refused to sign
McClatchy laid off more than 90 journalists across at least 13 papers in eight states, by union estimates, in what staff called its bloodiest round of cuts in years. The Miami Hera…
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Are AI layoffs shrinking tech employment? US tech jobs grew by 86,000 in the same month
Technology occupation employment in the US grew by about 86,000 workers in August, according to CompTIA's analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, while tech companies cut roug…
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Another AI layoff? Zscaler cuts 3% of staff, but its SEC filing says only 'reallocating resources'
Zscaler told the SEC on 3 September 2026 that it had committed two days earlier to a plan to 'reduce our worldwide headcount by approximately 3%', a cut of roughly 260 people again…
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AI job losses are concentrated among workers aged 22 to 25, Stanford payroll study finds
Stanford University researchers working with payroll processor ADP analyzed employment data through June 2026 and found no broad AI-driven job destruction across the economy - but …
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Blizzard's 1,900 unionized workers secure first contracts with layoff protections and AI bargaining clause
Workers at Blizzard Entertainment ratified their first union contracts on Tuesday after two years of negotiations led by the Communications Workers of America. The agreement covers…
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Will AI replace software engineers, or just leave them reviewing its code?
The Guardian interviewed more than a dozen software engineers in July 2026 about work that has shifted from writing code to reviewing what AI writes. The numbers around them are st…
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Did AI take 3,000 jobs at Intuit? The memo it filed with the SEC says something else
Intuit told the SEC on 20 May 2026 that it would reduce its full-time workforce by approximately 17%, about 3,000 roles against its last reported headcount of 18,200, and book $300…
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Trinity Health outsources 557 IT jobs to unnamed vendor, triggering WARN Act timing dispute
Trinity Health is permanently eliminating 557 information technology positions at its Livonia, Michigan headquarters, moving the work to an external technology partner. The Michiga…
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LinkedIn layoff forces technical program manager to restart job search after 13 years in tech
Felisha Case, a technical program manager at LinkedIn, was laid off in May after 13 years working in tech at Amazon, Oracle, Twitter, and LinkedIn. She discovered the news when an …
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Information sector job cuts accelerate to 23,000 in August, outpacing its own trend
The information sector - covering software, data processing, web hosting, publishing and broadcasting - cut 23,000 jobs in August, nearly three times its 12-month average monthly l…
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Have AI layoffs really slowed - or did employers just stop calling job cuts AI?
US employers announced 52,881 job cuts in August 2026, the lowest August total since 2022, and AI fell to the fourth most-cited reason at 3,462 cuts - its weakest month since Decem…
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Pinterest cuts 700 jobs to fund AI - its filing never says AI did the work
Pinterest told the SEC on 27 January 2026 that it would cut just under 15% of its workforce - roughly 700 of about 4,666 employees - and book $35 to $45 million in pre-tax restruct…
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Home services, automated: Angi sheds 350 jobs and books $70M in savings
Angi, the home-services marketplace formerly known as Angie's List, cut 350 jobs on 9 January 2026 - roughly 12.5% of its 2,800 staff. The company's SEC filing attributed the restr…
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Jack Dorsey halves Block, from 10,000 staff to under 6,000, and says your employer is next
Block cut about 4,000 jobs on 26 February 2026, taking the payments company from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 6,000 - a 40% reduction announced in one go. CEO Jack Dors…
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Record revenue, 1,100 jobs gone: Cloudflare's CEO says AI ended the 'measurers'
Cloudflare announced more than 1,100 job cuts on 7 May 2026, about 20% of its workforce, on the same day it reported record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, up 34% year on year…
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Amazon's second AI cut in three months takes 16,000 more corporate jobs
Amazon told staff on 28 January 2026 that it would cut 16,000 corporate roles, three months after eliminating 14,000 in late October 2025. Together the two rounds remove roughly 9%…
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Oracle told the SEC what other companies will not: AI cut 21,000 jobs
Oracle's headcount fell from 162,000 to 141,000 over the fiscal year ending 31 May 2026, a net loss of roughly 21,000 roles or about 13% of the company. What makes it unusual is wh…
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IBM's HR bot took 200 jobs - then the company hired more programmers
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna confirmed the company let go about 200 HR workers as its internal AskHR agent scaled up - the bot now automates 94% of routine HR tasks, from pay statements …
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Snap cuts 1,000 jobs and thanks AI for making small teams possible
Snap announced on 15 April 2026 it is laying off about 1,000 people - 16% of its full-time workforce - and closing more than 300 open roles, expecting over $500 million in savings …
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If AI takes the jobs, tax the tokens: US bill proposes a robot tax for mass unemployment
A House bill would put an excise tax on large AI companies and raise the rate automatically if unemployment climbs, with the money going to create jobs in areas from housing constr…
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The invisible layoff: AI quietly erased up to 9% of entry-level job postings
New analysis reported by Forbes on 2 September 2026 finds AI has cut entry-level job postings by as much as 9% - jobs that disappear before anyone is hired into them. Unlike a layo…
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Uber cuts 3,300 people while writing a $10 billion check for robotaxis
Uber is cutting about 3,300 salaried jobs, a tenth of its workforce, chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told employees on 2 September 2026. Drivers, who are independent contractors,…
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Meta guts a tenth of Reality Labs as the metaverse loses to AI
Meta has begun laying off staff working on virtual reality in its Reality Labs division and is closing several of its game studios. CNBC confirmed that the cuts amount to more than…
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'I need less heads': Salesforce halves its human support team as AI agents take the calls
Salesforce has cut about 4,000 customer support roles, chief executive Marc Benioff said on The Logan Bartlett Show. "I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support," he said. …
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9,000 jobs traded for GPUs: Microsoft trims staff while its AI infrastructure bill balloons
Microsoft cut roughly 9,000 employees at the start of its 2026 fiscal year, a reduction the company tied to cost control as its spending on AI infrastructure climbs. It sits on a r…
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Cisco redirects 4,000 salaries into its AI bet
Cisco cut about 4,000 roles in May 2026, around 5% of its workforce, in the same quarter that it reported record revenue of $15.8 billion, up 12% on a year earlier. Chief executive…
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AI is now named in one of every five US job cuts
US employers announced 52,881 job cuts in August 2026, the slowest August for layoffs since 2022, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Artificial intelligen…