7,041
Worldwide verified job cuts this week ▲ 67% vs week of Jul 6
The main number, every figure traces to a filing or named report.
260
🤖 blamed on AI by the employer 4% of the total
AI or automation named as a cause, in the company’s own words.
Every figure below is a live link: click any number, company or industry to open the exact rows and sources behind it, filtered to this period.
Across 54 separate verified layoff events in 9 countries.
AI, in the employer’s own words 1 attribution this period, each with its source
This is the receipt behind the number above. Every cut we count as AI carries the company’s own statement, quoted verbatim, and a link to where they said it. Nothing here is inferred.
- Sprout Social, Inc. AI named among the causes
“including its ongoing investments in AI-powered social intelligence”
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Biggest single cuts
| Xbox | 3,200 |
| Electrolux Consumer Products, Inc. · SC | 1,255 |
| Samsung | 839 |
| Thomson Reuters | 500 |
| Aer Lingus · United Kingdom | 500 |