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"AI layoffs" headlines mix two different things: companies that said AI was a reason for cutting jobs, and layoffs that someone else decided were about AI. The second kind is much easier to find, and much harder to check.
This page logs only the first kind. A layoff goes in when the company itself, in a regulatory filing, a press release, an executive speaking on the record or an internal memo quoted by a credible outlet, tied the cut to AI or automation. Each row quotes those words, says who said them and links the source. As of it holds 47 layoffs from onward.
A stated reason is not proof of cause, so the page also keeps the other side: rows where the company denied replacing people, a cut that was reversed, widely reported layoffs where the company never mentioned AI, and the research that questions how much of this is AI at all.
What the tracker shows
- 47 layoffs logged where the company itself cited AI, from 9 January 2024 to 4 October 2026. 26 of them were announced in 2026, against 16 in all of 2025 and 5 in 2024. Each row quotes the company's own words and links the source.
- 105,503 jobs in the 37 layoffs that disclosed a number (10 gave only a percentage or nothing). 20,800 of those are multi-year targets running to 2028 or 2030. The largest single figure is Oracle's 21,000 (net headcount decline over the 12 months to 31 May 2026, about 13%). These are totals for each action; companies rarely say how many roles AI itself replaced.
- 77% rest on the company's own published words (36 of 47): 20 in a regulatory filing and 16 in a press release or public statement. The rest come from executives on the record or internal memos quoted by the press. 4 rows are marked contested and 1 was later reversed.
- When a function is named, back office and administration and management layers lead, with 5 layoffs each. Most announcements (28 of 47) are company-wide and do not say which teams were cut.
- "Fewer people needed" is the most common reason given (30 of 47, 64%). 14 said the cuts move money or people toward AI, and 3 said AI reduced demand for their product. The busiest quarter so far is 2026 Q2, with 14 layoffs.
Updated . A company citing AI is not proof that AI caused the cut; see the counter-evidence section below.
Cite this page
Gravity AI layoffs tracker, updated . https://gravity.fast/blog/ai-layoffs-tracker/. Data licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with credit and a link. Every row is in data.csv, with the quote, the speaker and up to three sources.
The layoffs
Newest first. The quote column is the company's own wording; the reason type is my classification of it, defined in the methodology.
| Date | Company | Jobs cut | Roles | What the company said about AI | Reason type | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E.W. Scripps Broadcast media, United States | 432 12% of staff | Editorial and content | We're leaning into AI, automation, technology and the centralization of some roles. CEO Adam Symson, second-quarter earnings call (Executive on the record) 432 positions plus 126 open roles eliminated since the start of 2026. | Fewer people needed | TheWrap, 2026-08-07 | |
| monday.com Work management software, Israel | 600 20% of staff | Company-wide | to align the Company's organizational structure with its strategic focus on the AI Work Platform. monday.com Form 6-K (Regulatory filing) Just over 600 employees, per TechCrunch. Contested: Co-founder Eran Zinman told employees the move "was not made to reduce costs or replace people with AI". | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (monday.com 6-K), 2026-07-22; TechCrunch, 2026-07-25 | |
| Sprout Social Social media software, United States | 260 20% of staff | Company-wide | designed to streamline the Company's organizational structure and align its cost base with its strategic priorities, including its ongoing investments in AI-powered social intelligence. Sprout Social Form 8-K (Regulatory filing) | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Sprout Social 8-K), 2026-07-15 | |
first report | Mews Hospitality software, Netherlands | Undisclosed 15% of staff | Company-wide | AI is now capable of handling much of the execution layer of that work intelligently and at scale, and more profitably. Founder Richard Valtr, LinkedIn post (Company statement) Context: Valtr said Mews was still hiring for specific roles. | Fewer people needed | Hotel Dive, 2026-07-08 |
| Elastic Software, United States | Undisclosed 7% of staff | Company-wide | In others, advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams. CEO Ash Kulkarni, announcement to employees published on the Elastic blog (Company statement) | Fewer people needed | Elastic Blog, 2026-06-24; SEC EDGAR (Elastic 8-K), 2026-06-24 | |
| Oracle Software and cloud, United States | 21,000 13% of staff | Undisclosed | In addition, the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce. Oracle annual report (Form 10-K) (Regulatory filing) Net headcount decline over the 12 months to 31 May 2026, about 13%; the filing does not say how many of these were due to AI. Context: The cuts ran alongside heavy spending on AI data centres; CNBC tied the March 2026 round to that spending. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (Oracle 10-K), 2026-06-22; TechCrunch, 2026-07-25; CNBC, 2026-03-31 | |
| Wix Website software, Israel | 1,000 20% of staff | Management layers | We have witnessed the most significant shift in how companies are built since the invention of modern programming languages in the 1970s. CEO Avishai Abrahami, letter to employees (Internal memo, reported) Roughly 1,000 employees. Context: Abrahami named the strong shekel against the dollar as the first pressure behind the cuts, with AI as the second. | Fewer people needed | Calcalist (Ctech), 2026-05-28 | |
first report | Acrisure Insurance brokerage, United States | 2,250 11% of staff | Company-wide | We made our first scaled AI investment in 2020, and as other leading organizations accelerate in this direction, we must continue to push the pace. CEO Greg Williams, memo to employees (Internal memo, reported) Mostly in the US. | Fewer people needed | Insurance Journal, 2026-05-22 |
| Meta Technology, United States | 8,000 10% of staff | Company-wide | AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, memo to staff (Internal memo, reported) About 8,000 roles, announced to staff on 23 April 2026 and carried out from 20 May. Contested: The April memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale did not mention AI explicitly; it said the cuts would "offset the other investments we're making". About 7,000 employees were reported to be moving into AI-focused roles. | Money moved to AI | CNBC, 2026-05-20; The Guardian, 2026-04-23 | |
| Standard Chartered Banking, United Kingdom | 7,800 multi-year | Back office and administration | Of course we're using AI along the way and AI will be a huge facilitator and enabler of that. CEO Bill Winters (Executive on the record) 15% of back-office roles by 2030. | Fewer people needed | The Guardian, 2026-05-19 | |
| Cisco Networking, United States | 4,000 5% of staff | Company-wide | This was really not a savings-driven restructure… this is more [about] realigning … resources around silicon, optics, security and AI. CFO Mark Patterson (Executive on the record) Nearly 4,000 roles. Context: The cuts came in a record revenue quarter. | Money moved to AI | TechCrunch, 2026-05-14; TechCrunch, 2026-07-25 | |
first report | Commerzbank Banking, Germany | 3,000 multi-year | Back office and administration | The Bank also anticipates that AI will enable it to free up and partially redeploy around 10% of its capacities Commerzbank first-quarter 2026 press release (Company statement) Part of the Momentum 2030 plan. | Fewer people needed | Commerzbank press release; Computer Weekly, 2026-05-11 |
first report | DeepL AI translation software, Germany | 250 21% of staff | Management layers | We are currently living through a massive structural shift in what work exists, who does it, and how many people it takes to do it well, and that shift is because of AI. Founder and CEO Jarek Kutylowski, LinkedIn post (Company statement) | Fewer people needed | Business Insider, 2026-05-08 |
| Cloudflare Internet infrastructure, United States | 1,100 20% of staff | Management layers, Finance and legal | With AI and agents now core parts of our workforce, the way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed. Cloudflare first-quarter 2026 results release, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) Context: The cuts came in a record revenue quarter; CEO Matthew Prince said they were not a cost-cutting exercise. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (Cloudflare 8-K exhibit), 2026-05-07; TechCrunch, 2026-05-08; Fortune, 2026-05-21 | |
| reAlpha Tech Real estate technology, United States | Undisclosed 25% of staff | Marketing, Engineering and product | Agentic AI has changed the economics of running a company. CEO Mike Logozzo, press release filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) About 25% of the workforce, including contractors. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (reAlpha 8-K exhibit), 2026-05-06 | |
| Coinbase Crypto exchange, United States | 700 14% of staff | Management layers | Over the past year, I've watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. CEO Brian Armstrong, email to staff published on the company blog (Company statement) Context: Armstrong also cited crypto market volatility as a reason to cut costs. | Fewer people needed | TechCrunch, 2026-05-05 | |
| Vertex, Inc. Tax software, United States | 170 9% of staff | Company-wide | intended to become a more AI-enabled company, focus investments on key growth opportunities and drive operational efficiency Vertex Form 8-K (Regulatory filing) | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Vertex 8-K), 2026-04-28 | |
| Snap Social media, United States | 1,000 16% of staff | Company-wide | we believe that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers. CEO Evan Spiegel, note to employees filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) Plus more than 300 open roles closed. | Fewer people needed | Snap Newsroom, 2026-04-15; TechCrunch, 2026-04-15 | |
first report | Crypto.com Crypto exchange, Singapore | 180 12% of staff | Company-wide | Companies that move immediately and pair the best AI tools with top performers will achieve a level of scale and precision that was previously impossible. CEO Kris Marszalek, post on X (Company statement) | Fewer people needed | CoinDesk, 2026-03-19 |
| Atlassian Software, Australia | 1,600 10% of staff | Company-wide | These actions are intended to rebalance the Company to accelerate building the future of teamwork in the AI era. Atlassian Form 8-K (Regulatory filing) Contested: CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote that the approach "is not 'AI replaces people'" but that AI changes "the number of roles required in certain areas". | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Atlassian 8-K), 2026-03-11; Business Insider, 2026-03-11 | |
| Block Financial technology, United States | 4,000 40% of staff | Company-wide | We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. CEO Jack Dorsey, public post on X (Company statement) Headcount from over 10,000 to under 6,000; the 8-K says more than 40%. Context: The BBC noted it was the first of Block's several layoff rounds since 2024 to cite AI. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (Block 8-K), 2026-02-26; BBC News, 2026-02-27; TechCrunch, 2026-07-25 | |
| WiseTech Global Logistics software, Australia | 2,000 29% of staff multi-year | Customer support, Engineering and product | I am prepared to say this clearly: the era of manually writing code as a core act of engineering is over. CEO Zubin Appoo, statement to the ASX (Company statement) Over about 18 months. | Fewer people needed | ABC News (Australia), 2026-02-25 | |
first report | Baker McKenzie Legal services, United States | 600 | Back office and administration, Marketing | This review was aimed at rethinking the ways in which we work, including through our use of AI, introducing efficiencies, and investing in those roles that best serve our clients' needs. Baker McKenzie spokesperson (Company statement) Reported, not confirmed by the firm: under 10% of global business services staff. | Fewer people needed | Legal Cheek, 2026-02-06 |
| Dow Chemicals, United States | 4,500 | Company-wide | in part by utilizing AI and automation to deliver step change in growth and productivity Dow press release, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (Dow 8-K), 2026-01-29; CBS News, 2026-01-29 | |
| Pinterest Social media, United States | Undisclosed 15% of staff | Company-wide | reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution Pinterest Form 8-K (Regulatory filing) Less than 15% of the workforce; no head count given. | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Pinterest 8-K), 2026-01-27; CBS News, 2026-01-27 | |
| Angi Home services marketplace, United States | 350 | Company-wide | to reduce operating expenses and optimize the organizational structure in support of long-term growth and in light of AI-driven efficiency improvements. Angi Form 8-K (Regulatory filing) | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (Angi 8-K), 2026-01-07 | |
first report | McKinsey & Company Consulting, United States | 200 | Internal IT | We are continually working to make our professional support functions more efficient and effective, including by taking advantage of AI. McKinsey spokesperson, emailed statement (Company statement) About 200 global technology jobs, per people familiar with the matter. | Fewer people needed | The Business Times (Bloomberg), 2025-11-26 |
| HP Inc. Technology hardware, United States | 4,000 multi-year | Engineering and product, Back office and administration, Customer support | HP's fiscal 2026 plan includes HP's efforts to drive customer satisfaction, product innovation, and productivity through artificial intelligence adoption and enablement HP fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 results release, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) 4,000 to 6,000 roles by fiscal 2028; the low end is counted. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (HP 8-K exhibit), 2025-11-25; CNN (Reuters), 2025-11-25 | |
| Amazon Technology and retail, United States | 14,000 | Management layers | This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we've seen since the Internet, and it's enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before Beth Galetti, SVP People Experience and Technology, message to employees published by Amazon (Company statement) Corporate roles. Contested: CEO Andy Jassy later said the cuts were driven by "culture" and "a lot more layers", not AI. Amazon described its next round (16,000 roles, January 2026) as removing bureaucracy, and that round is not logged here. | Fewer people needed | Amazon, 2025-10-28; GeekWire, 2025-10-28; Fortune, 2026-02-10 | |
| Chegg Education technology, United States | 388 45% of staff | Company-wide | The new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google to content publishers have led to a significant decline in Chegg's traffic and revenue. Chegg press release (Company statement) | AI hit demand | Chegg Media Center, 2025-10-27 | |
| Lufthansa Group Aviation, Germany | 4,000 multi-year | Back office and administration | In particular, the profound changes brought about by digitalization and the increased use of artificial intelligence will lead to greater efficiency in many areas and processes. Lufthansa press release, Capital Markets Day (Company statement) 4,000 full-time-equivalent administrative roles worldwide by 2030. | Fewer people needed | CNBC, 2025-09-29 | |
| Accenture IT services and consulting, Ireland | Undisclosed | Company-wide | exiting people in a compressed timeline where reskilling is not a viable path for the skills it needs and identifying areas to drive even more operating efficiencies in its business, including through AI. Accenture fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 results release, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) Severance is part of a $615 million business optimization charge; no head count in the filing. Context: CEO Julie Sweet said on the earnings call that Accenture still expected to increase headcount overall. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (Accenture 8-K exhibit), 2025-09-25; Fortune, 2025-09-27 | |
first report | Fiverr Online marketplace, Israel | 250 30% of staff | Company-wide | a modern, clean, AI-focused infrastructure from the ground up CEO Micha Kaufman, email to staff (Internal memo, reported) | Fewer people needed | The Register, 2025-09-16 |
first report | Salesforce Enterprise software, United States | 4,000 | Customer support | I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads. CEO Marc Benioff on The Logan Bartlett Show (Executive on the record) Customer support headcount reduced from about 9,000 to about 5,000. Context: A Salesforce spokesperson said it no longer needed "to actively backfill support engineer roles" and had redeployed hundreds of employees, so part of the reduction came from not refilling roles. | Fewer people needed | Fortune, 2025-09-02; Mint, 2025-09-02 |
first report | Commonwealth Bank of Australia Banking, Australia | 45 | Customer support | Our investment in technology, including AI, is making it easier and faster for customers to get help, especially in our call centres. CBA statement confirming the cuts (Company statement) Reversed on 21 August 2025. Reversed: Three weeks later CBA called the cuts an "error", apologised and said the roles were not redundant after call volumes rose following the voice-bot launch. | Fewer people needed | ABC News (Australia), 2025-07-29; ABC News (Australia), 2025-08-21 |
| Jamf Software, United States | Undisclosed 6.4% of staff | Company-wide | In addition to the efficiencies experienced over the last year from deploying AI within the sales, product and customer success groups, Jamf is further accelerating investments in AI capabilities Jamf press release, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Jamf 8-K exhibit), 2025-07-15 | |
| Recruit Holdings (Indeed, Glassdoor) Recruitment and HR technology, Japan | 1,300 6% of staff | Company-wide | AI is changing the world CEO Hisayuki Idekoba, memo to employees (Internal memo, reported) About 6% of Recruit's HR technology workforce. | Money moved to AI | CBS News, 2025-07-10 | |
| Business Insider Media, United States | Undisclosed 21% of staff | Editorial and content | all-in on AI CEO Barbara Peng, memo to staff (Internal memo, reported) Context: The same memo also blamed "extreme traffic drops" outside the company's control. | Money moved to AI | Nieman Lab, 2025-05-29 | |
| Chegg Education technology, United States | 248 22% of staff | Company-wide | Google and their expansion of AI Overviews continues to keep web traffic captive in the Google search experience and migrate search to Gemini. Chegg first-quarter 2025 earnings release, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) | AI hit demand | SEC EDGAR (Chegg 8-K exhibit), 2025-05-12 | |
| CrowdStrike Cybersecurity, United States | 500 5% of staff | Company-wide | AI flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster. Message to CrowdStrike employees, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) Context: The same message said CrowdStrike would keep hiring in customer-facing and product engineering roles. | Fewer people needed | SEC EDGAR (CrowdStrike 8-K exhibit), 2025-05-07 | |
| Five9 Contact-centre software, United States | Undisclosed 4% of staff | Company-wide | as part of the Company's broader efforts to prioritize investments in key strategic areas, including artificial intelligence, as well as to drive profitable growth Five9 Form 8-K (Regulatory filing) | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Five9 8-K), 2025-04-03 | |
| Workday Enterprise software, United States | 1,750 8.5% of staff | Company-wide | We're also prioritizing innovation investments like AI and platform development, and rigorously evaluating the ROI of others across the board. Message to Workday employees, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Workday 8-K exhibit), 2025-02-05; SEC EDGAR (Workday 8-K), 2025-02-05 | |
| Intuit Software, United States | 1,800 10% of staff | Company-wide | Companies that aren't prepared to take advantage of this AI revolution will fall behind and, over time, will no longer exist. CEO Sasan Goodarzi, email to employees filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) About 1,050 of the 1,800 were described as performance exits; Intuit said it would hire about 1,800 new people. Context: Intuit said about 1,050 of the departures were people "not meeting expectations" and planned to hire about 1,800 people in engineering, product and customer-facing roles. | Money moved to AI | SEC EDGAR (Intuit 8-K exhibit), 2024-07-10; Intuit Blog, 2024-07-10 | |
| Chegg Education technology, United States | Undisclosed 23% of staff | Company-wide | Due to the increasing demands on the modern student, as well as the rapid proliferation of generic AI tools, the need to broaden beyond academic solutions is more important for us than ever before. Chegg shareholder letter, filed with the SEC (Regulatory filing) 23% of the global workforce; the shareholder letter gives the share, not a head count. | AI hit demand | SEC EDGAR (Chegg 8-K exhibit), 2024-06-17 | |
first report | Grammarly Software, United States | 230 | Company-wide | the AI-enabled workplace of the future Grammarly, explaining the restructuring to TechCrunch (Internal memo, reported) | Money moved to AI | TechCrunch, 2024-02-09 |
| SAP Enterprise software, Germany | 8,000 | Company-wide | It also intends to transform its operational setup to capture organizational synergies, AI-driven efficiencies and to prepare the company for highly scalable future revenue growth. SAP press release (Company statement) About 8,000 positions affected by the 2024 restructuring, most expected to be covered by voluntary leave and internal re-skilling. Context: The Register reported in April 2025 that about 3,000 staff had left after up to 10,000 roles were earmarked. | Fewer people needed | SAP News Center, 2024-01-23; The Register, 2025-04-23 | |
first report | Duolingo Education technology, United States | Undisclosed | Editorial and content | We just no longer need as many people to do the type of work some of these contractors were doing. Part of that could be attributed to AI. Duolingo spokesperson, statement to Bloomberg (Company statement) About 10% of contractors; the company declined to give a number. No full-time employees. Context: Duolingo also told CNN "We are not swapping the expertise of human experts for AI" and said not all of the cuts were due to the technology. | Fewer people needed | Business Insider, 2024-01-09; CNN, 2024-01-09; The Washington Post (archived), 2024-01-10 |
Jobs cut is the number the company or the cited outlet gave for the whole action, the low end where a range was given; "Undisclosed" means only a percentage or nothing was published. Download every row as data.csv.
Breakdown
By reason given
| Reason | Layoffs | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fewer people needed | 30 | 64% | |
| Money moved to AI | 14 | 30% | |
| AI hit demand | 3 | 6% |
By function named
| Function | Layoffs | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back office and administration | 5 | 28% | |
| Management layers | 5 | 28% | |
| Customer support | 4 | 22% | |
| Editorial and content | 3 | 17% | |
| Engineering and product | 3 | 17% | |
| Marketing | 2 | 11% | |
| Finance and legal | 1 | 6% | |
| Internal IT | 1 | 6% |
By where the AI link was stated
| Source of the AI link | Layoffs | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regulatory filing | 20 | 43% | |
| Company statement | 16 | 34% | |
| Internal memo, reported | 7 | 15% | |
| Executive on the record | 4 | 9% |
Trend by quarter
| Quarter | Layoffs | Jobs disclosed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q1 | 3 | 8,230 | |
| 2024 Q2 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q3 | 1 | 1,800 | |
| 2024 Q4 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q1 | 1 | 1,750 | |
| 2025 Q2 | 4 | 748 | |
| 2025 Q3 | 7 | 9,595 | |
| 2025 Q4 | 4 | 18,588 | |
| 2026 Q1 | 8 | 13,230 | |
| 2026 Q2 | 14 | 50,270 | |
| 2026 Q3 | 4 | 1,292 | |
| 2026 Q4 (to date) | 0 | 0 |
By year: 2024, 5 layoffs (10,030 jobs disclosed); 2025, 16 (30,681); 2026 to 4 October 2026, 26 (64,792). The rise reflects more companies saying "AI" out loud as much as more cuts; read it as a count of stated reasons, not of jobs lost to AI.
Not counted, and why
These layoffs were widely described as AI layoffs, but the company did not cite AI, or said it was not the reason. They are not in the counts above. They sit here because a reader searching for them deserves the answer, and because they show how often "AI" is the commentator's word rather than the company's.
| Date | Company | Jobs | What the record shows | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uber | About 3,300 (10%) | Some coverage linked it to AI, but CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's email framed it as removing management layers and combining divisions; it did not cite AI. | TechCrunch, 2026-09-02 | |
| Microsoft | About 4,800 (2.1%) | Microsoft said the eliminated roles were "not being replaced by AI", while acknowledging that "AI is changing how work gets done". | TechCrunch, 2026-07-25 | |
| General Motors | 500 to 600 IT roles | GM's statement spoke of transforming its IT organisation and did not mention AI; only an unnamed person told CNBC that AI played a role. | CNBC, 2026-05-12 | |
| Ocado | About 1,000 | Ocado said a phase of robotics and automation investment was largely complete and declined to comment on the role of AI. Analysts quoted by the BBC pointed to rivals catching up, partly by using AI, and to deeper structural problems. | BBC News, 2026-03-03 | |
| Amazon (second round) | About 16,000 corporate roles | Amazon described the cut as part of an effort to "strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy"; Fortune reported that it attributed the reductions to bureaucracy, not the technology. | CNBC, 2026-01-28; Fortune, 2026-02-02 | |
| Autodesk | About 1,000 (7%) | The CEO's email said the changes were "not driven by the external environment or an effort to replace people with AI". | SEC EDGAR (Autodesk 8-K exhibit), 2026-01-22 | |
| Tata Consultancy Services | About 12,000 (2%) | CEO K Krithivasan said the cuts had nothing to do with AI productivity gains, according to Moneycontrol. | Moneycontrol, 2025-07-28 | |
| Klarna | No layoff: headcount down about 40% through attrition | The most quoted example is not a layoff. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski credited AI in part, but said the shrinking came from a hiring freeze and natural attrition of 15 to 20% a year. | CNBC, 2025-05-14 |
What the wider data says
- A Financial Times analysis, reported by TechCrunch, found that companies citing AI in job cuts underperformed the Nasdaq by almost 10% in the 30 trading days after the announcement. (TechCrunch, citing the Financial Times, 2026-07-25)
- Challenger's count of US layoffs tied to AI reached 49,135 for 2026 by its May report, nearly as many as all of 2025. (Fortune, citing Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 2026-05-21)
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, February 2026: "there's some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, and then there's some real displacement by AI of different kinds of jobs." (Fortune, 2026-05-03)
- Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted 1.2 million announced US job cuts in 2025; AI was named as a reason for about 55,000 of them, or 4.5%. (Fortune, citing Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 2026-02-10)
- The Yale Budget Lab found no significant AI-driven change in occupational mix or unemployment duration for highly AI-exposed jobs since ChatGPT's release, a picture it described as "stability, not major disruption". (Fortune, 2026-02-02)
What the record shows
Most of these are company-wide cuts with AI as one stated reason among several. Few announcements name the teams affected, and fewer say how many roles AI itself took over. Salesforce is the clearest exception: Marc Benioff said support headcount went from about 9,000 to about 5,000 "because I need less heads", and a spokesperson said the company no longer needed "to actively backfill support engineer roles", so part of the drop came from not refilling jobs.
"Fewer people needed" and "money moved to AI" are different claims. Cloudflare, Block and Snap said AI lets smaller teams do the work. Workday, Pinterest, Cisco and Atlassian said the cuts free money or headcount for AI products. Chegg said AI reduced demand for what it sells. The table keeps them apart because they mean different things for the people affected.
Several cuts came in record quarters. Cloudflare and Cisco both announced cuts alongside record revenue, and Meta's and Oracle's cuts ran next to very large AI infrastructure spending. That pattern is one reason economists and some executives, Sam Altman among them, have used the term "AI washing" for layoffs that would have happened anyway.
Some companies said AI and then qualified it. Atlassian's CEO wrote that its approach "is not 'AI replaces people'". monday.com's co-founder said its cut "was not made to reduce costs or replace people with AI". Amazon's CEO later put its October 2025 round down to culture and layers, and the company described its January 2026 round as removing bureaucracy. Those rows are marked contested, and the January round is in the not-counted table.
At least one AI cut did not survive contact with the work. Commonwealth Bank of Australia cut 45 call-centre roles after launching a voice-bot in July 2025 and reversed the decision three weeks later, saying the roles were not redundant after all. It is the only reversal logged so far; I will add others as they are reported.
Large employers announce in years, not weeks. Lufthansa, Standard Chartered, Commerzbank and HP set multi-year targets running to 2028 or 2030. They are counted at the low end of what was announced, and the table marks them so they are not read as immediate job losses.
Change log
One dated line for each batch of rows added or corrected. Corrections name the row and what changed.
- : Tracker opened with 47 layoffs dated 9 January 2024 to 6 August 2026, each checked against the company's own words in a filing, statement, interview or reported memo.
Methodology
Here is exactly what counts as an AI-attributed layoff on this page, so you can decide how far to trust the numbers.
Attribution, defined strictly. A layoff is logged only if the company itself linked it to AI or automation in at least one of four places: a regulatory filing (an 8-K, 6-K, 10-K or stock-exchange announcement), a company statement or press release, an executive speaking on the record (an earnings call, interview, podcast or public post), or an internal memo whose wording a credible outlet quoted. The words that make the link are quoted verbatim in the row, with who said them. A paraphrase by a journalist is not enough on its own.
What does not count. Analysts, unions, anonymous sources or commentators saying a layoff was about AI when the company did not. Headcount that fell through attrition or a hiring freeze, which is why Klarna is not in the table. Voluntary buyouts. Cuts inside a company's own AI unit with no AI rationale. A company that denied AI was the reason. The widely reported cases among these go in the "not counted" table with the reason.
Reason types. Each row is classified by what the company said: fewer people needed (AI or automation lets it do the work with fewer people), money moved to AI (the cuts fund or realign resources toward AI), or AI hit demand (AI reduced demand for its product). This is my reading of the quote, which sits next to it so you can disagree.
Status. Contested means the company cited AI but also said, in the same announcement or later, that it was not replacing people with AI or that the cut had another main cause. Reversed means the company withdrew the cut.
Numbers. Jobs cut is the figure the company or the cited outlet gave for the whole action, never an estimate, and the low end where a range was given. It is not the number of roles AI replaced, which companies almost never publish. Where only a percentage was given, the row says "Undisclosed" and keeps the percentage. Multi-year targets are counted in the quarter they were announced and marked.
Sources. Every row has one to three dated sources, at least one a primary document or original reporting, and each was opened and read before the row went in. Other public lists of AI layoffs were used only to find leads; nothing was copied from them, and several of their entries are not here because the company's own words did not make the link.
Refresh. Weekly. A script collects candidate news stories each week; each candidate is checked against these rules and its source before a row is added, and the numbers on this page are recomputed from the rows.
Known gaps. This is a log of what companies said publicly, so it undercounts: small and private companies rarely announce layoffs, and many large ones fold AI into a general restructuring without naming it. Coverage is English-language and skews to US-listed companies, whose filings are searchable. A rise in the count partly reflects companies becoming more willing to say "AI" out loud.
FAQ
Which companies have cited AI as a reason for layoffs?
As of 4 October 2026 this tracker logs 47 layoffs where the company itself named AI or automation as a reason, including Salesforce (4,000 support roles, September 2025), Amazon (14,000 corporate roles, October 2025), Block (about 4,000, February 2026), Cloudflare (1,100, May 2026), Meta (about 8,000, May 2026) and Standard Chartered (about 7,800 back-office roles by 2030). Each row on the page quotes the company's words and links the source.
How many jobs have been cut because of AI?
Nobody can count that precisely, because companies give a total for each layoff, not the share AI replaced. In this tracker, the 37 layoffs that disclosed a number add up to 105,503 jobs as of 4 October 2026, including 20,800 in multi-year targets. For scale, Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted about 55,000 announced US job cuts in 2025 that named AI as a reason, 4.5% of 1.2 million.
Which jobs are most affected by AI layoffs?
Most announcements do not say: 28 of the 47 layoffs logged as of 4 October 2026 are company-wide. Where a function is named, back office and administration and management layers lead with 5 layoffs each, followed by customer support with 4, including Salesforce, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, HP and WiseTech Global.
Is AI really the reason, or are companies AI washing?
Sometimes it is hard to tell. A company citing AI is a stated reason, not proof. Sam Altman said in February 2026 that some companies blame AI for layoffs they would have made anyway, the Yale Budget Lab found no broad AI-driven labour market disruption, and several companies in the tracker gave other reasons in the same breath, such as currency moves at Wix or market volatility at Coinbase. The page keeps those notes next to each row.
Has any company reversed an AI layoff?
Yes. Commonwealth Bank of Australia cut 45 call-centre roles in July 2025 after launching an AI voice-bot, then called the decision an error and apologised in August 2025 after call volumes rose. Klarna, often cited as an AI layoff, did not lay people off at all: its headcount fell through a hiring freeze and attrition.
How is this different from other AI layoff lists?
General layoff trackers count all layoffs without tagging the reason, and many AI layoff lists include cuts that commentators linked to AI when the company did not. This tracker logs a row only when the company's own words tie the cut to AI, quotes those words, and lists widely reported cases where the company did not cite AI in a separate table.
Can I use this data?
Yes. The table and the CSV are licensed CC BY 4.0: copy them, chart them and quote the numbers, crediting "Gravity AI layoffs tracker" with a link to this page. If a row is wrong, tell me and I will correct it and note the change in the change log.
How do I report a layoff that cited AI?
Email support@gravity.fast with a link to the company's own words: a filing, a press release, an executive interview or a credible report quoting an internal memo. A post that only says a layoff was "because of AI" without the company saying so goes in the not-counted table, not the main one.
Sources
- Per-layoff sources: linked in each table row and listed in full in data.csv (up to three per row, with publisher and date). Most US rows link the company's own SEC filing via EDGAR full-text search.
- Fortune, "'AI-washing' and 'forever layoffs': Why companies keep cutting jobs, even amid rising profits", 10 February 2026, citing Challenger, Gray & Christmas: fortune.com
- Fortune, Yale Budget Lab findings on AI and the labour market, 2 February 2026: fortune.com
- Fortune, Sam Altman on "AI washing", 3 May 2026: fortune.com
- TechCrunch, running list of 2026 tech layoffs where employers cited AI, 25 July 2026, including the Financial Times share-price analysis: techcrunch.com
- ABC News (Australia), Commonwealth Bank reverses AI job cuts, 21 August 2025: abc.net.au