Aug 19, 2026

AI Layoff Tracker

Week 34 · August 18-19, 2026 · verified job cuts · counted by the date the cuts take effect

In Week 34 of 2026, employers verified 872 US job cuts. Worldwide, verified job cuts totalled 1,101. No employer explicitly named AI as a reason.

Both figures are verified job cuts on August 18 and 19, 2026, counted where the jobs were and by the date the cuts take effect.

229 of the 1,101 verified job cuts sit on entries with no country recorded. The United States figure and the regions below therefore do not sum to the worldwide one. Filings and notices keep arriving, so this window is provisional: it usually rises, and a correction can lower it.

AI-attributed cuts

0 today · 42,953 in 2026 so far

We reviewed 6 entries dated August 18-19, 2026, 1,101 verified job cuts between them. No employer explicitly named AI as a reason on any of them. Explicit attribution is rare and arrives in bursts: of the 32 complete weeks of 2026 measured to August 16, 16 recorded none. So far in 2026 employers have attributed 42,953 verified job cuts to AI, 8% of the year's total.

Why that matters: zero AI-attributed cuts does not mean AI played no role. It means no employer in these records explicitly cited AI as a reason. This tracker measures employer disclosure, not the effect of automation on employment.

Source quality

Where these came from, August 18-19, 2026, verified only: 872 from state WARN filings, 229 from named news reports.

All 6 entries on August 18 and 19, 2026 are verified, across 6 companies. The window holds no announced estimates. Announced cuts are plans companies have stated that no filing or named report verifies yet.

Biggest cuts

August 18-19, 2026, verified only, ranked by job count.

1 of the 5 companies listed on August 18 and 19, 2026 links to an entry page naming the filing or report behind the row. The rest arrived through a bulk filing import, which builds no page, so they link to the tracker filtered to that company instead.

Where the jobs were

August 18-19, 2026, verified only, counted where the jobs were rather than where the employer is based. Regions are our own grouping.

Which industries

August 18-19, 2026, verified only, by the industry we classified the employer into.

Food & Hospitality, Healthcare & Pharma and Manufacturing are the three largest, 89% of the 951 verified job cuts we classified by industry on August 18 and 19, 2026.

These lines cover 951 of the 1,101 verified job cuts on August 18 and 19, 2026. 150 are on entries with no industry recorded.

2026 YTD

522,255

verified job cuts

January 1 - August 19, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the cuts take effect.

Of those, 42,953 were attributed to AI by the employer, January 1 - August 19, 2026, worldwide.

100,897 of the 522,255 verified job cuts sit on entries with no country recorded, January 1 - August 19, 2026.

Open the tracker for August 18-19, 2026

About this snapshot

The database last changed August 19, 2026 at 13:46 UTC. This digest was composed August 19, 2026 at 13:54 UTC, and every figure in it is the snapshot taken then.

Cite this

AI Layoff Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for August 18-19, 2026, as of August 19, 2026 at 13:46 UTC, accessed August 19, 2026 at 13:54 UTC.

https://asktherecruiter.com/blog/ai-layoff-tracker/

Talent Intelligence Tracker

New hiring signals

150

August 18-19, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the source published.

From 149 companies, August 18-19, 2026. 6 of the 150 are verified against primary documents.

Biggest signals

August 18-19, 2026, the signals naming the most jobs first, then the tracker's own order. Each headline is quoted as its source published it, in that source's own language.

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE): Censo Agropecuario: INE activa reclutamiento para 6.419 encuestadores y jefes de brigada (6,419 jobs, La Razon, August 18, 2026)
• Lidl gradi bazu od 100 miliona evra! Centar velik kao osam fudbalskih terena: Traže 1.000 radnika (1,000 jobs, Blic, August 19, 2026)
• Radix abre 600 vagas de emprego em TI e inteligência artificial (600 jobs, Convergencia Digital, August 18, 2026)
• Fábricas Nacionales de Cerveza cierra la fábrica de Minas y analiza inversión de US$ 14 millones para planta de Montevideo (59 jobs, El Observador, August 18, 2026)
• Arcos Dorados: Gran Opening de McDonald’s Ciudad Colón reunió a la comunidad con actividades para toda la familia (32 jobs, Delfino.cr, August 18, 2026)

YTD 2026

Hiring signals

22,870

January 1 - August 19, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the source published.

Open the Talent Intelligence Tracker for August 18-19, 2026

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Talent Intelligence Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for August 18-19, 2026, accessed August 19, 2026 at 13:54 UTC.

https://asktherecruiter.com/blog/talent-intelligence-tracker/