"EQT-ägda Epidemic Sound vill minska med 150 tjänster i AI-skifte [EQT-owned Epidemic Sound wants to cut 150 positions in AI shift]" — Quote is the Dagens Industri-sourced headline (via Finwire telegram). 150 jobs = roughly one-third of the workforce, Stockholm. Di paraphrases interim CEO Sara Börsvik: cuts are not financially motivated but aim to adapt the company to AI development — however no VERBATIM company quote naming AI tied to the cuts was retrievable (Börsvik's direct quote: 'Det är tungt förstås...'; chairman Winbladh: 'i princip alla tidigare affärsmodeller kommer att bli förlegade'), so company-explicit is conservatively false. Same-day company press release quotes Winbladh — 'AI is accelerating change across technology and media much faster than most incumbent companies were built to handle' — but that release does not mention the workforce reduction (ht
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AI Layoff Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. "Epidemic Sound, 150 jobs (2026-04-21)." Retrieved Aug 2, 2026. Primary source: Dagens Industri via Finwire/Placera.