Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs. The Memo Names Layers, Not AI.
Uber's 3,300-job cut comes with a memo that counts layers and micro-teams and never says AI. What it measured, what it skipped, and why 1% remote follows.
Uber's 3,300-job cut comes with a memo that counts layers and micro-teams and never says AI. What it measured, what it skipped, and why 1% remote follows.
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week its Q1 revenue grew 34% and beat estimates. Meta confirmed 8,000 cuts on $201B in 2025 revenue. The layoffs are real; 'AI did it' is part of the answer, not the whole one.
Brian Armstrong cut Coinbase by 14% with a structural argument: 'No pure managers.' What it means for IT leaders, and why healthcare IT is on a longer fuse.
Meta will cut 8,000 jobs May 20 while pouring tens of billions more into AI. The 'AI replaced them' headline is neater than what the company actually said.
Oracle eliminated up to 30,000 employees โ 18% of its workforce โ with a pre-dawn email signed 'Oracle Leadership.' The savings fund a $156 billion AI infrastructure bet that has already pushed the company's debt past $108 billion.
Meta is planning layoffs that could affect up to 20% of its 78,865 employees โ roughly 15,800 people โ as AI infrastructure costs consume an ever-larger share of revenue.