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Aug 25, 2026
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AI Layoff Tracker
2026 Week 35 · August 24-25 · verified job cuts · counted by the date the cuts take effect · provisional
In Week 35 of 2026, employers verified 348 US job cuts. Worldwide, verified job cuts totalled 361. 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 24 and 25, 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.
Every verified cut in this window carries a country, so the regions below sum to the worldwide figure.
AI-attributed cuts
0 today · 53,953 in 2026 so far
We reviewed 5 entries dated August 24-25, 2026, 361 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 24-25, 2026, verified only: 361 from state WARN filings.
There are 5 entries on August 24 and 25, 2026, 4 of them verified. Including announced estimates, the same window holds 461 job cuts across 5 companies. Announced cuts are plans companies have stated that no filing or named report verifies yet.
Biggest cuts
August 24-25, 2026, ranked by job count. 1 of these 5 is an announcement, marked below, and sits outside the verified figure above.
| BILL Operations, LLC (California, United States, takes effect August 24, 2026) | 129 jobs |
| Carolina West Wireless (North Carolina, United States, takes effect August 24, 2026) | 127 jobs |
| Cellares (location not recorded, takes effect August 24, 2026, announced) | 100 jobs |
| A.O. Smith Corporation (Ohio, United States, takes effect August 24, 2026) | 92 jobs |
| Commissionnaires du Québec (Canada, takes effect August 24, 2026) | 13 jobs |
Where the jobs were
August 24-25, 2026, verified job cuts, counted where the jobs were rather than where the employer is based: United States 348 · Canada 13. Regions are our own grouping.
Which industries
August 24-25, 2026, verified job cuts, by the industry we classified the employer into: Finance & Insurance 129 · Telecom 127 · Manufacturing 92.
2026 YTD
550,238
verified job cuts
January 1 - August 25, 2026, worldwide, counted by the date the cuts take effect.
Of those, 53,953 were attributed to AI by the employer, January 1 - August 25, 2026, worldwide.
105,212 of the 550,238 verified job cuts sit on entries with no country recorded, January 1 - August 25, 2026.
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Data notes
1 of the 5 companies listed on August 24 and 25, 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.
These lines cover 348 of the 361 verified job cuts on August 24 and 25, 2026. 13 more sit below the lines shown.
About this snapshot
The database last changed August 25, 2026 at 08:08 UTC. This digest was composed August 25, 2026 at 10:22 UTC, and every figure in it is the snapshot taken then.
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AI Layoff Tracker, AskTheRecruiter.com. Figures for August 24-25, 2026, as of August 25, 2026 at 08:08 UTC, accessed August 25, 2026 at 10:22 UTC.
https://asktherecruiter.com/blog/ai-layoff-tracker/
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