#ai

https://techgig.com/amp/news/jobs-layoffs/ai-reshapes-tech-jobs-indian-it-firms-issue-layoff-warnings/130165883

Behaviour Interactive recently laid off approximately 40 employees. Rumors circulated online regarding the reasons for these layoffs. Allegations suggested the layoffs were due to unionization efforts or opposition to AI. Behaviour Interactive denied these claims, stating they were unrelated. The company explained the cuts stemmed from decreased demand for mobile and casual game development.

Montreal, QC

https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-50700

All this AI push to make Shell better is just lip service by so-called leaders wanting to save money with reduced headcount. Before long, there won’t be any employees to buy their products. It’s laughable that YL and his merry bunch of “leaders” think employees are stupid enough to believe it’s anything else.

Cognizant launched Project Leap to transform its operating model for AI-led delivery. This program involves investments in AI capabilities and workforce reskilling. It will also result in employee layoffs as the company shifts to an AI-led pyramid. Cognizant expects to incur $230-$320 million in costs, mostly for severance, in 2026. The company anticipates $200-$300 million in cost savings from this initiative.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/cognizant-launches-project-leap-for-ai-led-future-signals-layoffs-and-reshaping-of-pyramid-model/article70921384.ece

CVS Health is reducing 313 positions within Aetna's small group insurance business. These cuts are part of a broader $2 billion cost-cutting initiative. The initiative has already eliminated approximately 1,500 Aetna positions since late 2023. The affected roles are located in Connecticut. Roles from analyst to executive director in sales, underwriting, and account management are impacted.

Connecticut

https://medcitynews.com/2026/04/ai-driven-layoffs-in-healthcare-navigating-legal-risks-and-operational-challenges/

So I put AI on tthe resume.

I can make CoPilot hallucinate with the best of them!

Indian IT and outsourcing companies filed multiple WARN notices. These included Hinduja Global Services, Infosys, and HCL Technologies. Filings occurred in US states like Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania during early 2026. This surge indicates accelerated restructuring, exceeding 2025's total. Artificial intelligence adoption and cost pressures are driving these changes.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/in-first-three-months-of-2026-hinduja-global-services-infosys-and-hcl-tech-have-filed-warn-notices-in-the-us-states-of-texas/ar-AA20uFSY?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&bundles=feat-es2020-c

Salesforce will recruit 1,000 new graduates and interns. This hiring push supports the company's AI-led product development. CEO Marc Benioff announced this initiative on X. The broader tech sector saw over 81,000 layoffs this year. Major tech companies are cutting jobs while investing heavily in AI.

https://www.peoplematters.in/news/talent-management/salesforce-to-recruit-1000-graduates-as-layoffs-rise-across-big-tech-49448

Supply chain sent a note to the contractor labor (mostly developers) that it is suspected they are using AI and those gains should be passed along to AT&T. Therefore their contracts amounts must be reduced immediately and every year for the next four years.

I unfortunately was not laid off. Honestly, I would’ve loved to have had 4 to 8 months of severance to get out of this he-l hole.

Unfortunately, I’m stuck behind in a company that’s already dead and doesn’t know it.

The company that Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman created is dead, it’s now filled with a bunch of overpaid mouth breathers, who are politicians more than business people, not the whole company but enough.

Nike’s AI hype is a perfect example. You have a bunch of re--rds running around for three f** years trying to make AI work at Nike and there’s been nothing of measurable value created. The enterprise doesn’t even have a strategy, even though it spent millions of dollars and 100s of resources to do “something” with AI.

Fortunately, the id--ts who decided to go with copilot were all fired or at least most of them. Unfortunately, a new group of id--ts will use AI as some sort of silver bullet to save the company when they have no experience actually doing anything with AI and the company’s problems have nothing to do with AI(at least at the present moment).

It’s just a bunch of people pushing technology they don’t understand, other than it’s a magic word to maintain influence, relevance, and job security.

Don’t get me wrong. Nike was a great company and a great American story. But that company is dead.

So to those of you who got fired, I wish you the best of luck and frankly, I’d rather not be on the Titanic as it sinks.

• Were you the one writing AI first or AI driven in your linkedin profile?
• Did you posted that “ I would like to share that I recently completed blah blah blah AI course” too often in linkedin?
• Are you the one who bluffs in meetings and throw big words all day long but dont do sh-t?
• Did you kissed the bottom really well all these years?

I am geniunely curious. What did you do right?

Not trying to stir anything, just curious how others see this.

CS sits on the board of Microsoft, and we’re seeing a strong push for Copilot internally.

Got laid off last week due to reorg at Gainwell — no notice, just same-day exit. Management changes, no budget, increased pressure on teams, and offshoring made the direction pretty clear in hindsight.

It’s a tough reminder of how quickly things can shift, especially with AI and evolving priorities reshaping the industry.

Too bad they dont have CS on the board of Microsoft so we can all get the Microsoft 365 reminder to "integrate copilot into your workday to prevent yourself from falling below 3 days a week!"

RTO has become AITO

Your notices go out May 1!

Mandatory voluntary compliance for AI user metrics...Now someone tell me AI is not a bubble

SAP strategy is what it has always been: wall off the garden and force the installed base to adopt mediocre software products.

This strategy will fail massively with AI.

1. it is now very easy to get data into snowflake and databricks, there is already massive demand for people who understand the semantics of SAP S4 data.
2. Using AI is so ludicrously complicated it is essentially a joke, you literally need 4-5 extra BTP licenses just to activate the tools, the plumbing alone requires a mini project of several weeks
3. Even if you go through this painful exercise you literally get nothing that you could not have gotten (even for free) outside of the SAP universe and most of these products are much superior to the SAP tools
4. SAP has no control over the LLM models

the only moat for SAP is writing back into the S4. This is the last defense, every other wall has been breached already

Cybersecurity firm Pentera is laying off approximately 40 employees. This represents less than 10% of its total workforce. The cuts primarily affect marketing and headquarters roles. Pentera is reallocating resources to focus on AI and product development. The company continues to recruit for engineering and AI innovation positions.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ioncnpzl

Artificial intelligence is creating a significant divide in the global workforce. Professionals with AI skills are seeing increased productivity and higher paychecks. Companies like Meta and Amazon are restructuring roles, with AI handling repetitive tasks. Human workers are left with high-order thinking, strategy, creativity, and empathy. This trend is leading to AI-related layoffs and job redefinition. Without proper reskilling efforts, this gap could become a major structural divide.

https://www.thehrdigest.com/ai-layoffs-are-creating-a-new-divide-in-the-workforce/

Got laid off today from Gainwell due to badge/rebadging, offshore changes, AI implementation, and poor management decisions.
Multiple accounts were affected, with around 50 people laid off the same day.
No prior notice — it all happened immediately.
Frustrating situation, but I’m staying focused on what’s next.
If you know of any opportunities, I’d really appreciate a referral.

Former Meta executive Clara Shih launched a nonprofit organization to help Gen Z navigate AI-driven job disruption, offering tools to match skills with careers as automation reshapes entry-level roles and shifts workforce expectations toward AI adaptability.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/news/this-former-meta-exec-builds-a-nonprofit-platform-to-help-gen-z-find-jobs-amid-layoffs

I feel a bit apprehensive about the upcoming Global Employee Meeting. Our results were good and beat market expectations and I know I should not feel this way. We have a lot of positive cash flow and can sustain good growth if we continue the trajectory. This is one of those times where smart CEOs and executive boards and supervisory boards (elected) would try to invest in more headcount to get an edge over our competitors. But I know that will not happen because
1) The biggest SAP commitment is to create enough cash flow for executive board bonuses and group executive bonuses
2) The second biggest SAP commitment is to create enough cash flow for share buybacks. SAP intends to spend up to 2.6 billion € (without incidental acquisition costs) in the period from 5 February 2026 until 27 July 2026 at the latest. https://www.sap.com/investors/en/stock/share-buy-back/2026.html
3) The third biggest SAP commitment is to create enough cash flow for the AI fairy tale. I call this is fairy tale because the total cost of AI solutions, third party development to make those solutions work for SAP employees, operating costs related to AI and opportunity costs when having to fix AI mistakes is very high.
In fact, there are reports that AI costs more than the humans they are intending to replace. But compared to humans, they do not have "workers rights" and can be easily exploited at the cost of our environment.
4) Lack of empathy in our executive board members and elected supervisory board representatives. Every earnings call and global employee call has one or two speakers apologizing for something derogatory they said towards employees. This doesn't matter because they go right back to treating us like dirt again.
5) Commitment to fake HR plans. The new HR under Gina scrapped all previous HR programs and want to reinvent the wheel again. What this means is that they want to reduce workers rights and reduce employee benefits. And they create a lot of busy work for themselves to talk about but this work has no impact or has a negative impact on the SAP culture. We had HPOM and then Performance Management. God knows what atrocity they are brewing now.

This and many other reasons make me apprehensive about the Global Employee Meeting. I am expecting layoff news either as a big number or a small percentage every year. I wish we had the courage to fight back by giving low unfiltered scores. I wish we had more courage to elect better supervisory board members and not the same ones again and again because they have shown themselves to be executive friendly and not employee friendly. I wish SAP had a real long term strategy that went beyond "we are copying others in AI slop". I wish I didn't have to worry about having a job when I work for a company that is actually making a decent profit.

How are you all feeling about the Global Employee Meeting?

As you all know 75% of teh contractors in CX were made redundant during the last 3 months. Most of it happened in the CX centres.
The latest is, CX is getting rid of all small accounts and they are keeping only what they call signature accounts. These are major SP accounts like AT&T,verizon, BT, TI, DT,Telstra etc.
The CX enterprise business is in a lot of trouble for a long time. So except for few strategic accounts like Microsoft,google, etc, CX is getting rid of all small accounts. Their plan is to manage such accounts through partners. This is a big shift that will happen in the next 12 months. As a primary step, they are planning to cut 15% of all blue badges in all theaters. They are planning to justify it with AI efficiency improvement and margin pressure. So Braze for it amigos.

And most definitely less efficient and reliable. Small satisfactions. I might be jobless, but it will still be fun to watch it unfold.

In a meeting about AI, (I am working on two Claude AI models now) it was slipped to myself and another by a market VP that they are looking deep into AI driven models to replaced human bodies. May is the month they will be collecting names of those that have not done all the AI training, looking to flat out replace them with AI driven models. The bottom line is this, on June 4th those that have just rejected AI and have not embraced AI will be removed from Verizon. Those that have embraced AI and have done all the training will still be employed on June 5th. That is the plan as it was told to me. On a side note our Claude code will replace many bodies in finance.

Sales has always been more of a face to face type of job even for remote meetings. Do you really think Larry would try to replace us with AI or cut down on us? Less sales less profits.

Article... AI can cost more than human workers now _
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers

Every week I use Gemini to create my weekly report for my boss. They use Gemini to read it. They then use Gemini to extract the highlights of my Gemini generated report along with the highlights of my peers to send another Gemini generated report to their VP. Is anybody actually reading or understanding anything anymore?

Now it’s the same thing… just with “AI” copy-pasted on every slide.
Principal Architects running the show, somehow always in the room, rarely in the outcome.
They don’t build.
They don’t run.
But they definitely “align.”
Every problem gets a framework.
Every framework gets a deck.
Every deck gets approved.
Nothing actually gets better.
“Agentic systems,” “AI platforms,” “north star”, all discussed at length, all safely far from production.
Decisions sound big.
Ownership stays small.
Meanwhile, teams that ship are rewriting the plan in real time just to get something out the door.
At this point, the architecture isn’t enabling delivery, it’s something delivery has to survive.
But sure… one more review, one more workshop, one more “AI strategy” session.
That’ll fix it.

We tried to warn you early on a couple years ago that both outsourcing and AI was coming for al of our jobs. But you simply did not want to listen.

Well, now it is coming for your jobs as well. You should have listened and joined your voices with ours, when there may have been a chance if enough people would have early on voiced their concerns and complaints as to what we were all seeing.

Perhaps, leadership would have expressed upstream their employees frustration. And maybe senior leadership would have given in and taken a different course.

In the BNY annual letter, BNY leadership credits ‘culture and connections’ for our strong performance. Really? Or is this just a poetic way of saying the balance sheet looks fantastic when thousands of employees mysteriously vanish through ‘efficiency initiatives.’ Apparently 2025 was a triumph because nothing boosts margins like RTO‑driven attrition, frozen hiring, and AI agents quietly absorbing entire job families.

And 2026? Even more ‘opportunity,’ which is corporate code for deeper cuts wrapped in inspirational hashtags emojis.

But don’t worry — leadership says we’re all thriving together. Afterall, check the stock price and EC Compensation Plans. Some of us just happen to be thriving right out the door.” #onwardandupward

Amid budget constraints, Verizon stopped issuing new tokens..
sooner and later, most companies will catch up to the fact that how fast cost of AI will stack up compared to Human salary.

Meta just offered a glimpse at what it thinks the future of work looks like: training and supervising artificial-intelligence systems to do what used to be your job. And that’s if you still have a job at all.

The social-media company has been unusually aggressive, even by the standards of Silicon Valley, at pushing to incorporate AI into its employees’ workflows and using it to streamline and accelerate its operations. https://on.wsj.com/4sY3ovU

Already this year, it has started grading employees in performance reviews on their AI use; created ultra flat teams with almost no managers; and begun to develop a so-called CEO agent to assist Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg in performing his job.

On Thursday, the company said it planned to lay off 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, on May 20.

Earlier in the week, an internal memo notified employees of a new software tool that would record their keystrokes, mouse movements and click locations to teach “the next generation of our AI models to use computers.”

It is all part of the tech company’s plans to become “AI native” and transform the way its teams and employees do their jobs as it seeks to spend up to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year and build what it calls personal superintelligence for its 3.5 billion daily users.

The moves have left some staff filled with anxiety and wondering: Am I helping automate my own job away?

https://on.wsj.com/4sY3ovU

Block laid off 984 California employees in its recent job cuts. This represents about one-fourth of its total global workforce reduction. The company attributed these layoffs to its adoption of artificial intelligence tools. Block initially faced noncompliance issues with state WARN Act filings. The company is now largely compliant with the California EDD.

Oakland, California

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/california-takes-big-hit-in-blocks-massive-layoffs/article_3bb72b47-4305-49de-bb80-9dae9f52c7c3.html

One star for the paycheck, one star for the high-speed office Wi-Fi I used to research my move to California.

If you enjoy the creative challenge of building a sandcastle while the tide is coming in—and the tide is actually your Executive leadership with a shovel—this is the place for you.

I spent nearly 30 months here as a contractor, and it was a masterclass in Dynamic Indecision. My weekly workflow was incredibly efficient: I would spend Monday through Thursday writing code, and Friday morning hitting Ctrl+Z because leadership had a "new vision" that was diametrically opposed to the vision they had during Tuesday’s stand-up.

The goalposts here don’t just move; they’ve been mounted on a Tesla and are currently speeding toward a different zip code. I eventually realized that intense pressure is just the sound the company makes while it’s spinning its wheels in the mud. Once I accepted that I was essentially a highly-paid digital eraser, the stress vanished.

I left this company with the same number of production-ready features I started with: zero. My legacy is a series of deleted branches and a lot of wasted electricity.

Since nobody knew what we were building, I had plenty of time to get handsy with AI tools. Thanks for funding my self-taught Master’s degree in Prompt Engineering!
I successfully used my 30 months of experience (read: paid study hall) to land a job on the West Coast.

If you actually want to build something that exists in the physical world, look elsewhere. My sincere hope is that the leadership can actually define the word "AI" before they accidentally spend another two years paying someone to delete their own work.

Pick a direction. Any direction. Even if it’s off a cliff, at least you'll be moving.

While the culture is terrible, one thing the bank does offer is the Skills Academy. This is a huge opportunity to gather and learn new skills for your next opportunity. Not many companies offer this type or level of learning. Take advantage of this while you are here. It’s a huge advantage to add these skills to your resume. Especially any AI courses you can take advantage of. Times are tough, jobs are scarce. Take advantage of what you can. Skills you learn here are transferable. Take advantage!!!

Senior Leader claims AI innovation and DMM costs to be blamed for LR.
Thoughts? Are others hearing these claims?

I accomplished something today in about 20 minutes with my manager using Copilot a project that would have taken the India team 11 hours to accomplish. 1 hour to explain. 6 hours to read the document and do the work. Another hour to re-explain what I wanted because they did it wrong, and then another 3 hours to finish the project.

The co-pilot answer was structured, tabular, concise, without excessive use of passive voice that makes my brain hurt.

Definitely the future

Is there any good reason to have Cresta installed? We were forced to download it this week. Most of the time it’s in my way and the conversation summaries are not accurate. I don’t see much use for that application other than it probably training AI to take our jobs. Another failed use of Schwab trying to force AI into the business.

Can AI fix walgreens systems without a human?

:) No!

IBM is in a strong financial position, backed by consistent cash flow, disciplined capital allocation, and a well-managed balance sheet under CFO Jim Kavanaugh. The company continues to invest strategically in high-growth areas like AI and hybrid cloud while maintaining financial stability, showing that its transformation is being executed from a position of strength—not weakness.

https://share.google/4ngeV04IsIvD0qMR0