Tech layoffs

HP to cut about 6,000 jobs by 2028, ramps up AI efforts

HP SAID on Tuesday it expects to cut between 4,000 and 6,000 jobs globally by fiscal 2028 as part of a plan to streamline operations and adopt artificial intelligence to speed up product development, ...

Some US workers may be affected by the job reductions, but employment in the country is anticipated to remain roughly the same year over year, IBM says..

IBM to cut thousands of jobs in fourth quarter amid software focus

The company employs about 270,000 workers as at the end of 2024

Baidu and Alibaba Group Holding have seen their headcounts fall for three consecutive years.

AI hiring thaw helps relieve tech talent glut in China

This hyper-competitive environment for graduates is playing out against a backdrop of a broader structural shift in the industry’s labour market

The company is on the hook for tens of billions of US dollars to build out increasingly large server farms to meet demand.

Oracle cuts cloud division jobs amid surge in AI spending

Many tech giants have sought to deal with the surging costs of artificial intelligence by reducing expenses in other parts of the business

Alibaba’s reduction has been more pronounced, with its full-time employee count falling by more than 50%, from 254,941 in March 2022 to 124,320 in March 2025.

China’s tech giants spook a generation of workers with job cuts

The industry turmoil has hit mid-career professionals, particularly those over 35, the hardest

Microsoft is pushing salespeople to both use and sell artificial intelligence products.

Microsoft offers some salespeople extra pay following layoffs

In recent months, the company has terminated some 15,000 people in two rounds of major layoffs

Scale is one of several AI companies that have seen key talent hired away in the last year, without being acquired.

Scale AI to cut 14% of staff following Meta investment

The startup has long been the best-known name in the market for helping tech firms label and annotate the data needed to build artificial intelligence models

AI has become a justification for layoffs, while also letting companies outsource the work of empathy to a large language model.
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Microsoft has announced cuts of about 15,000 employees this year, with a wave of layoffs last week targeting customer-facing roles such as sales.

Microsoft touts US$500 million AI savings while slashing jobs

Artificial intelligence implementation has fuelled replacement anxiety for many workers, particularly in the tech industry

The Oregon job reduction will hit facilities in Aloha and Hillsboro starting on Jul 15, Intel says.

Intel cuts over 500 jobs in Oregon as part of layoff plan

The company has not given a total figure for the cuts, but a source familiar with the matter has put the amount at more than a fifth of staff