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The CEO of IgniteTech recently bragged about replacing the vast majority of his workforce after they "sabotaged" his AI initiative.

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CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn’t Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again

A Microsoft exec is claiming that the company has already saved $500 million as it automates thousands of jobs formerly held by humans.

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Insider Claims Microsoft Saved Half a Billion Dollars by Automating Low-Level Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive round of layoffs is gutting some of the highest-level members of NASA as Trump continues gutting federal government programs.

More Than 2,100 NASA Staff Are Getting Gutted

Amid Business Insider's latest pivot to AI, the site's past brushes with the technology are coming back to haunt it.

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Business Insider Did Something So Stupid With AI That We’re Reeling

By Noor Al-Sibai

Silicon Valleys software engineers are finding their previously ironclad careers crumbling under the growing cost of AI development.

Silicon Valley Software Engineers Horrified as They Can’t Easily Find Jobs Anymore

Google's office with dark red, scary clouds looming behind.

Something Bad Is Brewing Inside Google

Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest publishing companies in the US, will lay off about 4% of its workforce to make room for OpenAI.

Large Publisher Lays Off More Than 100 Employees After Striking Deal With OpenAI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping layoffs of what he refers to as "low-performers" at his empire.

Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

By Victor Tangermann

As the tech sector reels from layoffs, one underemployed worker is urging others to sell their blood to make ends meet.

Laid Off Tech Worker Suggests That Unemployed People Should Sell Their Blood to Survive

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the last man standing, he was tasked with fixing-up all the AI-generated articles that once would've been composed by dozens of writers.

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Writer Alarmed When Company Fires His 60-Person Team, Replaces Them All With AI

By Frank Landymore

Amid recurring rounds of layoffs, Tesla workers are dreading their own terminations — and it's unclear when the cuts are going to end.

Tesla Employees “Walking on Eggshells” as Furious Musk Continues Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google employees have been pretty down as of late amid massive layoffs — but according to the company's C-suite, the beatings won't continue.

Google Execs Say Employees Will Be Rewarded for Huge Profits With Fewer Layoffs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has decided to gut 200 members of its "core" team and start replacing their jobs in cheaper labor markets.

Google Lays Off 200 Workers to Replace Them With Cheaper International Workers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some Tesla workers didn't find out they'd been laid off until they showed up to work Monday morning and were locked out.

Tesla Staff Didn’t Know They Were Laid Off Until They Tried to Enter the Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is laying off over ten percent of its global workforce, the latest bruising in a not-so-great 2024 for the Elon Musk-owned EV maker.

Elon Musk Fires More Than Ten Percent of Tesla’s Staff After Alienating Pretty Much Everyone Who Might Have Bought a Tesla

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former NASA employee is sounding off on government short-sightedness — and, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically, comparing Congress to Rome.

Ex-NASA Employee Slams Government for “Folly, Arrogance, and Fully-Informed Ignorance”

By Noor Al-Sibai