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Aug 22, 2026
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AI Layoff Tracker
2026 Week 34 · August 21-22 · verified job cuts · counted by the date the cuts take effect · provisional
In Week 34 of 2026, employers verified 1,776 US job cuts. Worldwide, verified job cuts totalled 2,004. No employer explicitly named AI as a reason.
United States verified job cuts | Worldwide verified job cuts |
Both figures are verified job cuts on August 21 and 22, 2026, counted where the jobs were and by the date the cuts take effect.
Filings and notices keep arriving, so this window is provisional: it usually rises, and a correction can lower it.
200 of the 2,004 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.
AI-attributed cuts
0 today · 53,953 in 2026 so far
We reviewed 23 entries dated August 21-22, 2026, 2,004 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 53,953 verified job cuts to AI, 10% 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 21-22, 2026, verified only: 1,209 from state WARN filings, 730 from named news reports, 65 from SEC 8-K filings.
All 23 entries on August 21 and 22, 2026 are verified, across 15 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 21-22, 2026, verified only, ranked by job count.
| JPMorgan (New Jersey, United States, takes effect August 21, 2026) | 500 jobs |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Texas, United States, takes effect August 21, 2026) | 244 jobs |
| Apple (location not recorded, takes effect August 21, 2026) | 200 jobs |
| Lucid Group, Inc. (California, United States, takes effect August 21, 2026) | 136 jobs |
| Keywords International Limited Group (California, United States, takes effect August 22, 2026) | 128 jobs |
2 of the 5 companies listed on August 21 and 22, 2026 link 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.
Where the jobs were
August 21-22, 2026, verified job cuts, counted where the jobs were rather than where the employer is based: United States 1,776 · Europe 18 · Canada 10 · No country recorded 200. Regions are our own grouping.
Which industries
August 21-22, 2026, verified job cuts, by the industry we classified the employer into: Finance & Insurance 806 · Retail & E-commerce 394 · Technology 200.
These lines cover 1,400 of the 2,004 verified job cuts on August 21 and 22, 2026. 513 more sit below the lines shown. 91 are on entries with no industry recorded.
2026 YTD
550,656
verified job cuts
January 1 - August 22, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the cuts take effect.
Of those, 53,953 were attributed to AI by the employer, January 1 - August 22, 2026, worldwide.
105,412 of the 550,656 verified job cuts sit on entries with no country recorded, January 1 - August 22, 2026.
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The database last changed August 22, 2026 at 07:56 UTC. This digest was composed August 22, 2026 at 10:13 UTC, and every figure in it is the snapshot taken then.
Cite this
AI Layoff Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for August 21-22, 2026, as of August 22, 2026 at 07:56 UTC, accessed August 22, 2026 at 10:13 UTC.
https://asktherecruiter.com/blog/ai-layoff-tracker/
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