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Hundreds of thousands of tech workers are in trouble, new report shows
According to a new report from executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracked layoff announcements from companies in several different employment sectors ranging from retail to media, in 2025, the tech industry had the highest recorded number of layoffs for the month of October: 33,281 compared with 5,639 in September. Tech companies have announced 141,159 job cuts this year compared with 120,470 during the same period in 2024, Challengerās report said. Total year-to-date job cuts in the U.S. are at their highest level since the pandemic struck in 2020, and the firm says that layoffs for the month of October havenāt been this high since 2003 ā an alarming statistic considering that the creation of new jobs overall has reached its lowest point in years.
Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlashāand then returns with a strange message
Facing heavy backlash online after unveiling its new AI-first policy, Duolingo went dark over the weekend on the social media channels where it cultivated an enormous following with quirky posts. The company even took down all of its posts on TikTok and Instagram, where it has 6.7 million and 4.1 million followers, respectively, after both accounts were flooded with negative feedback. After days of silence, on Tuesday the company posted a bizarre video message on TikTok and Instagram, the meaning of which is hard to decipher.
Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Reports: US losing edge in AI talent pool
About as many top AI researchers are leaving the country as those entering, according to Zeki data.
Career advice in 2025.
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs canāt meaningfully replace many essential roles of software professionals. However, Iām also reading Jennifer Palkhaās Recoding America, which makes an important point: decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.)
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promiseābut CEOs just canāt resist the technology.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed
Chief executive Brian Nicoll vows to āfundamentally changeā strategy in face of worse-than-expected results