✊ Labor & Worker Actions

California Vetoes 'No Robo Bosses Act' - Workers Won't Get Notice When AI Fires Them

Gov. Newsom vetoed SB 7 banning AI-only discipline and termination decisions. Unions said 'bosses should have souls.' Newsom said protecting workers would cost businesses $1 billion. Labor lost.

2025-10-29 β€’ 7 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Accenture Cuts 11,000 Workers It 'Can't Retrain for AI.' The Consultants Who Sell AI Transformation Can't Do It Themselves

Accenture - the firm that advises companies on AI adoption and workforce reskilling - just laid off 11,000+ employees because they 'couldn't retrain them for AI roles.' The consultants selling AI transformation failed at transforming their own workforce. Let that sink in.

2025-10-28 β€’ 6 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Amazon to Cut 30,000 Corporate Jobs. CEO: 'We Will Need Fewer People' as AI Rolls Out

Amazon confirms cutting 14,000-30,000 corporate jobs. CEO Andrew Jassy says AI and automation will eliminate roles. Target: 75% automated operations. Your corporate job isn't safe either.

2025-10-28 β€’ 7 min
🏒 Company Automation

Amazon's Blue Jay Robot Replaces 3 Human Stations With One AI System. Project Eluna Tells Managers Where to 'Shift People' Before Layoffs

Blue Jay consolidates 3 robotic workstations into one AI-powered system. Project Eluna predicts bottlenecks and recommends workforce reductions. Built in 1 year - 3x faster than previous robots. They're not even hiding it anymore.

2025-10-28 β€’ 8 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Google Cuts 100+ Cloud Design Roles to 'Refocus on AI.' Even Creative Jobs Aren't Safe Anymore

Google eliminated over 100 design positions in its cloud division in October 2025, shifting resources toward AI development. Design - supposedly one of the 'human' skills AI can't replace - just got automated at Google. The creative jobs aren't safe either.

2025-10-28 β€’ 5 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Microsoft's 12 New Copilot Features: 'Human-Centered AI' That Makes Humans Optional

Microsoft dropped 12 new Copilot features in their Fall 2025 release - Groups, Memory, Real Talk, Connectors. They're calling it 'human-centered AI' while building tools that eliminate the need for human assistants, researchers, and coordinators. The irony is fucking perfect.

2025-10-28 β€’ 7 min
🏒 Company News

Channel 4 Debuts AI News Presenter: UK Broadcaster Just Automated the Anchor Desk

Channel 4 premiered an AI news presenter with synthetic voice and zero salary. Broadcasting just automated on-camera talent. TV journalists should worry.

2025-10-27 β€’ 6 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Claude Skills: Anthropic Just Made Every Specialist Consultant Sweat

Claude Skills master your workflows, brand guidelines, and specialized tasks. Pro users get instant domain expertise that used to require consultants.

2025-10-27 β€’ 6 min
πŸ“Š Research & Data

Ohio State Makes AI Courses Mandatory: Every Student Must Learn Their Replacement

Ohio State University is requiring all students to take AI courses starting 2026. Whether you're studying medicine, art, or business, you'll learn how AI works - including how it might replace your future job. Here's what this signals for higher education.

2025-10-27 β€’ 6 min
πŸ“Š Research & Data

850+ People Including AI Pioneers Call for Superintelligence Ban. LOL Good Luck With That

850+ including Hinton, Bengio, and Wozniak signed a petition to ban superintelligence. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Google race to build it. Your job's fucked either way.

2025-10-27 β€’ 6 min
πŸ’° Money & Markets

xAI Raises $6B, Valuation Hits $40B: Elon's Grok Is Coming for OpenAI's Lunch

Elon Musk's xAI just raised $6 billion in Series C funding at a $40 billion valuation. Grok AI is scaling fast with exclusive Twitter/X data access. Here's why this funding round signals serious competition for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google - and what it means for AI industry consolidation.

2025-10-27 β€’ 6 min
πŸ’° Money & Markets

AMD Crosses $400 Billion Market Cap on AI Infrastructure Bet - Wall Street Is Betting Big on Your Replacement

AMD hit $400 billion valuation on AI data center chips. Wall Street pumping billions into hardware powering workplace automation at scale. Here's what it means.

2025-10-26 β€’ 6 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Google's Willow Quantum Chip Just Cracked The Impossible - AI Automation Is About To Get Exponentially Faster

Google's Willow quantum chip successfully performed error-corrected calculations beyond classical supercomputers. This isn't just a tech milestone - it's the breakthrough that could 10x AI capabilities and accelerate workforce automation beyond what anyone predicted.

2025-10-26 β€’ 8 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Target Cuts 1,800 Corporate Jobs - First Major Layoffs in a Decade as Sales Flatline

Target axed 8% of headquarters staff - 1,800 jobs gone. Managers hit 3x harder than everyone else. Four years of stagnant sales finally caught up.

2025-10-26 β€’ 6 min
🏒 Company News

Amazon's Blue Jay Robot: $4 Billion in Savings, AKA Your Job is Gone

Amazon's new Blue Jay robot replaces three human-operated stations with one AI-powered system. Morgan Stanley says it'll save Amazon $4 billion by 2027. Translation: thousands of warehouse workers getting automated out of existence.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Amazon Plans to Fire 15% of HR Staff, Replace Them With AI - The People Who Process Layoffs Are Getting Laid Off

Amazon's planning to cut up to 15% of HR staff as AI takes over recruiting, onboarding, and employee management. Yes, the department that handles layoffs is getting automated. Here's the brutal breakdown.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Anthropic's Claude Life Sciences Just Automated Your PhD - Research Assistants and Postdocs Are Cooked

Anthropic just launched an AI that does literature reviews, hypothesis development, and data analysis in minutes instead of days. If you're a research assistant or postdoc doing grunt work, your job just got a lot less secure.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
🏒 Company News

Anthropic Locks In 1 Million TPUs From Google In Deal Worth Tens of Billions - The Automation Arms Race Just Hit Warp Speed

Anthropic locked in 1 million Google TPUs worth tens of billions annually. Over 1 gigawatt of compute by 2026. Automation infrastructure at scale.

2025-10-24 β€’ 9 min
🏒 Company News

China Just Bet $210M on Humanoid Robots - The Global Race to Replace Workers Is Accelerating

Leju Robotics raised $210M ahead of IPO, with Tencent and state-backed investors funding the Chinese push for humanoid worker-bots. China's humanoid robot funding doubled to $1.7B in 7 months. The US vs China automation arms race is real, and your job is the battlefield.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Claude Gets Memory. Your 'Institutional Knowledge' Competitive Advantage Just Died

Claude now remembers everything across sessions and imports from ChatGPT and Gemini. The skill that made experienced workers valuable is now $20/month.

2025-10-24 β€’ 8 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Elastic's Agent Builder Lets Anyone Build AI Agents in Minutes. AI Developers, You're Cooked

Elastic's Agent Builder lets non-technical users create enterprise AI agents in minutes. Work that required AI developers and ML engineers? Drag-and-drop.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Meta Replaces FTC Compliance Workers With AI - Even 'AI-Proof' Jobs Aren't Safe

Meta automating FTC-mandated privacy reviews with AI, firing humans legally required to do the work. If compliance jobs can be automated, nothing is safe.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

Microsoft Launches Copilot Mode 48 Hours After OpenAI Atlas - Your Assistant Job Is Still Fucked

Two days after OpenAI's Atlas browser launch, Microsoft rolled out near-identical Copilot Mode in Edge. Both companies racing to automate the same 4.5 million executive assistant and researcher jobs. Competition doesn't save you - it just accelerates your replacement.

2025-10-24 β€’ 8 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

October 2025 Layoffs: Paycom, Meta, NBC News, Rivian - The Bloodbath Tracker

October 2025 layoff tracker: Paycom 500+ to AI, Meta 600 from AI division, NBC 150 journalists, Rivian, Charter, WSJ swinging the hammer. Full breakdown.

2025-10-24 β€’ 8 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

OpenAI's Atlas Browser Just Made 4.5 Million Assistants and Researchers Obsolete

ChatGPT Atlas researches, books appointments, plans events, fills forms autonomously. Alphabet stock dropped 4% on launch. Your assistant job? It's cooked.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ€– AI Tools

OpenAI Just Made It Brain-Dead Easy to Automate Customer Service. Millions of Jobs on the Line.

OpenAI launched a comprehensive Apps SDK with partnerships from Booking.com, Expedia, Spotify, Zillow, and more. Built on Model Context Protocol, it's designed to let any company plug ChatGPT directly into customer-facing operations. Translation: Your customer service, booking agent, and support rep jobs just got a whole lot less secure.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
🏒 Company News

$500 Billion Says Your Job Is Getting Automated: OpenAI's Stargate Expansion

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank just announced 5 new AI data centers with nearly 7 gigawatts of capacity. Over $400 billion invested in 3 years. This isn't infrastructure - it's the compute power to automate millions of jobs. Here's what that actually means.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Paycom Fires 500+ Workers Via Text Message, Then Makes Them Join Webinar to Learn They're Fired

Oklahoma City's largest tech company fired 500+ employees via text, then forced them onto a webinar to hear they'd been replaced by AI. This is an HR software company doing this to their own employees. The irony is fucking unreal.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
🏒 Company News

SoftBank Just Bought Your Factory Job's Replacement for $5.4 Billion

Masayoshi Son spent $5.4B buying ABB's robotics division - 7,000 employees building robots for BMW and every major manufacturer. This isn't investment. It's consolidation. And it's about to accelerate the hell out of manufacturing automation.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

180,000 Tech Workers Fired in 2025. 489 Jobs Gone Every Single Day.

180K tech layoffs by October 2025. Intel cut 33,900. Microsoft axed 19,215. 50,184 directly blamed on AI and automation - that's 489 jobs per day getting yeeted into unemployment. The numbers don't lie, but they're about to get worse.

2025-10-24 β€’ 7 min
🏒 Company News

Ford CEO Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Replace 'Literally Half' of All White-Collar Workers

Corporate leaders are done pretending. Ford's CEO warns AI will wipe out half of office jobs. Salesforce already cut support staff from 9,000 to 5,000. JPMorgan tells managers to stop hiring. The white-collar apocalypse isn't coming - it's here.

2025-10-23 β€’ 6 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Leaked Docs: Amazon Plans to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robots by 2033

Internal Amazon documents reveal plans to automate 75% of operations and avoid hiring 600,000+ workers by 2033. This isn't speculation - it's their actual roadmap. And they told PR to stop saying 'automation.'

2025-10-23 β€’ 6 min
πŸ“‰ Job Losses

Amazon Just Showed You the Future: 600,000 Jobs, Gone by 2033

Amazon unveiled Blue Jay and Project Eluna at its warehouse automation showcase. Tye Brady says 'there's always a person at the center.' Leaked docs say 600,000 jobs are getting automated by 2033. Both can't be true.

2025-10-23 β€’ 6 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

Companies Blaming AI for Job Cuts. Critics Say It's Just a 'Good Excuse'

Accenture, Lufthansa, Salesforce, Klarna blamed AI for layoffs. Oxford says only 1% actually reported AI as the reason. They're lying or AI is eliminating jobs at scale.

2025-10-23 β€’ 6 min
πŸ’° Money & Markets

Google Bets Tens of Billions on Anthropic in Desperate Bid to Catch OpenAI

Google's dropping tens of billions on Anthropic's cloud deal while nursing a $160B market cap wound from OpenAI. Here's why this massive bet matters for your job.

2025-10-23 β€’ 4 min
🏒 Company News

Meta Fires 600 AI Researchers While Building AI to Replace Everyone Else

Meta just cut 600 jobs from its superintelligence division to 'accelerate decision-making.' The irony? They're building AI to automate everyone else's jobs. Here's what went down.

2025-10-23 β€’ 5 min
πŸ‘· Job Losses

NestlΓ© Cutting 16,000 Jobs to 'Automate Multiple Processes' - Chocolate Giant Goes Full Tech Bro

NestlΓ© cutting 16,000 workers over two years to fund automation. 75% white-collar office workers. Cost-cutting left tech and landed in your KitKat factory.

2025-10-23 β€’ 6 min
🏒 Company News

Netflix Goes 'All In' on Generative AI - Here's What That Actually Means for Entertainment Workers

Netflix's co-CEO just went full send on generative AI. While he's talking about 'helping creators,' the company's already using it in production. Here's what's happening behind the corporate speak and who's actually at risk.

2025-10-23 β€’ 6 min