Meta Posted $201 Billion in Revenue. Then It Scheduled 8,000 Layoffs for May 20.
Meta will cut 10% of its workforce on May 20 despite $201B in 2025 revenue. Here is what the financial numbers say about who these layoffs serve.
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Someone Threw a Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman’s Home. The Data Behind Public Hostility to AI Is Not Hard to Read.
Two attacks on Sam Altman's home in four days. A suspect with an anti-AI manifesto. Only 23% of the American public views AI positively. The data connects these dots.
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Goldman Sachs Quantified AI’s Monthly Job Toll. Its Own 40-Year Dataset Shows Who Takes the Permanent Hit.
Goldman Sachs put numbers on AI's monthly job toll and analysed 40 years of displacement data. The workers most at risk of permanent wage loss are not who the headlines...
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The US Government Fired 40% of an Agency’s Staff and Replaced Them With a Chatbot. Workers Say It’s About as Good as an Intern.
DOGE fired 40% of GSA's staff and gave the survivors an AI chatbot to absorb the work. Federal employees say it performs about as good as an intern. The agency...
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Jack Dorsey Cut 4,000 Jobs, Said Most CEOs Will Follow Within a Year, and Block’s Stock Surged 24%
Jack Dorsey cut 40% of Block's workforce and told shareholders most companies will do the same within a year. Block's stock surged 24%. Here is what the data actually shows.
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The Algorithm Rejected You Before the Interview. Federal Regulators Are Starting to Notice.
AI screening tools filter millions of job applications before a human reads them. Federal regulators have confirmed the bias problem is real, and the legal exposure is growing.
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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index: Real Productivity Gains, Entry-Level Jobs Down 20%, and 74% of Returns Going to 20% of Companies
Stanford's 2026 AI Index confirms AI productivity gains are real. It also shows entry-level software jobs are down 20% and 74% of AI's economic returns are captured by just 20%...
Read more →Klarna’s AI Replaced 700 Jobs. The CEO Now Admits It Went Too Far.
Klarna's AI chatbot replaced 700 customer service workers in 2024, cut response times, and saved millions. By 2025, customer satisfaction had dropped 22% and the CEO was hiring humans again....
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80,000 Tech Jobs Were Erased in 90 Days and the Companies Doing It Are Spending 650 Billion Dollars on the Technology They Are Using as the Excuse
In the first quarter of 2026, nearly 80,000 tech workers lost their jobs and almost half of those cuts were explicitly blamed on AI. Goldman Sachs says 16,000 jobs a...
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Why Every “AI Will Create More Jobs Than It Destroys” Study Is Funded by People Who Sell AI
Every few months, a new study comes out saying AI will create more jobs than it destroys. The headlines get written. The think pieces follow. LinkedIn fills up with posts…
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