Safe Superintelligence

Anthropic

Mistral AI

Sierra

Perplexity

World Labs

OpenAI

Ramp

ElevenLabs

Anduril

Neuralink

Supabase

Bilt

Whatnot

Databricks

Deel

VAST Data

Commonwealth Fusion

Glean

Consumer applications (incl. TikTok, Douyin)

ByteDance

Temporal

NVIDIA

Devoted Health

CrowdStrike

Rippling

Robinhood

Nubank

Cohere

Pinduoduo

DoorDash

Stripe

Polymarket

Rapid tunnel construction for transportation

Boring Company

Flock Safety

PhonePe

C6 Bank

Replit

Canva

Mercury

Samsara

Datadog

LangChain

SpaceX

CloudKitchens

Tesla

Helion

Verkada

Cloudflare

Rubrik

Consumer internet and tech (incl. WeChat and QQ)

Tencent

Palantir

Dell

Shopify

Salesforce

Bloomberg

Spotify

Xiaomi

MercadoLibre

Airbnb

Meituan

Tech conglomerate (owner of Garena and Shopee)

Coinbase

Block

JD.com

Roblox

Adyen

Reddit

Coupang

Fanatics

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EV Startup Rivian Lays Off Hundreds of Workers

Rivian

Robinhood to Cut 10% of Workforce in Restructuring

Employee reported layoffs

Salesforce lays off employees in a new round of cuts

GitLab to Cut 14% of Workforce as Part of AI Pivot

GitLab

Wix to cut 1,000 jobs in largest layoff round in company history

Meta Lays Off 8,000 Employees, As A.I. Casualties Mount

ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price

Zoominfo

Cursor Staff Meet With xAI Employees as Layoffs, Exits Mount

Cloudflare to Slash 1,100 Jobs Due to AI-Driven Restructuring Plan

Crypto exchange Coinbase to cut about 14% of workforce in AI-driven restructuring

Shopify makes cuts to its operations team in latest round of layoffs

Quora

Taboola lays off 100 employees, 5% of workforce

Taboola

Snap to cut 1,000 jobs after activist pressure, bets on AI efficiency

Snap

Event platform Eventbrite lays off a large part of its employees

Eventbrite

Meta lays off nearly 200 Silicon Valley workers as AI spending ramps up

Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives

Spotify Lays Off 15 Staffers In Podcast Division

Confluent

Dell is quietly shrinking its workforce

Dell workforce drops 10% in fiscal 2026, filing shows

Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

Atlassian CEO Cites AI Shift When Announcing Plan to Shed 1,600 Jobs

Atlassian

Tencent’s TiMi denies reports of mass layoffs, says around 100 staff affected by project adjustment

Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half

DoorDash to Wind Down Deliveroo, Wolt Operations in Four Countries

DraftKings cutting jobs in layoffs and reorganization

DraftKings

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio

CoStar confirms layoffs following investor criticism, AI push

CoStar Group

Musk reorganizes xAI after SpaceX merger and ahead of blockbuster IPO

Salesforce quietly laid off workers in a new round of cuts

Dorsey’s Block Cutting Up to 10% of Staff in Efficiency Push

Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track layoffs

Pinterest

Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams

UiPath

Shopify makes more job cuts, this time targeting partnerships team

Meta Lays Off 1,500 People in Metaverse Division

Procore

MercadoLibre lays off 119 employees amid AI expansion

Crypto exchange OKX cuts institutional staff amid global restructuring

PDD Fires Dozens After Fistfight With China Officials

The Trade Desk Lays Off Staff One Year After Its Last Major Reorg

The Trade Desk

Drata

Meta’s Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts

Shopify says recent layoffs “removed layers that created complexity”

Fanatics to shutter Tampa distribution center, lay off more than 280

a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff

Andreessen Horowitz

Personio

Meta Told Some Employees Their Jobs Are Being Replaced by Tech - Business Insider

Rivian to Lay Off More Than 600 Workers Amid EV Pullback

Meta lays off 600 from ‘bloated’ AI unit as Wang cements leadership

SoftBank Vision Fund to lay off 20% of employees in shift to bold AI bets

SoftBank

Fiverr cuts 250 jobs as CEO declares shift to AI-first strategy

Fiverr

Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok

Atlassian lays off another 200 customer service, support staff

Scale AI Makes Cuts to Key Team After Meta's $14 Billion Investment

Scale

EV Maker Rivian Lays Off Workers as It Preps Launch of Cheaper SUV

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his company has cut 4,000 customer service jobs as AI steps in: ‘I need less heads’

Semrush

OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market

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