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AI layoffs, in their own words

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AI layoffs, in the employer’s own words

Every layoff we attribute to AI carries the company’s own statement, quoted verbatim, with a link to where they said it. This is the receipt behind the AI number: not inference, not press framing, the employer’s words. Filter it, quote it, check it.

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2 AI attributions · 636 jobs · 2025 · each with the employer’s quote and its source.
  • Chegg AI named as the cause
    “the new realities of AI and its impact on traffic”
    388 jobs 2025-10-27 United States Education News See the source →
  • Chegg AI named as the cause
    “Google and their expansion of AI Overviews continues to keep web traffic captive in the Google search experience and migrate search to Gemini”
    248 jobs 2025-05-13 United States Education News See the source →

How these are chosen: a cut appears here only when the employer named AI or automation as a cause in words we can quote, confirmed by two independent passes, with the source on file. Investment in AI, a future projection, or AI used to pick who goes does not qualify. This is the strict, quotable standard; the tracker also has a broader AI-linked measure, labelled separately. Full methodology →