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Again, AI will be proven to be the largest scam and dupe of C suite mo--ns ever! For something that is supposed to transform humanity and solve all of our problems, it now needs ads? Remember when design thinking was going to solve the worlds problems? - LOL!!!

As of January 2026, OpenAI has begun testing the introduction of advertisements within ChatGPT in the United States. This move marks a significant shift for the company, whose CEO previously states that ads were a "last resort".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USVZuOafIi4

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ernestmedsel_ai-activity-7421968993181130752-CmN5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAA4Bi0oBs8Ddvldtd9fxma6xbBuG6OaOo4I

Omnicom plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and shut down several well-known advertising agencies after buying rival Interpublic Group for $13 billion. The advertising industry is under growing pressure as artificial intelligence changes how ads are made. Big tech companies like Meta are also making it easier and faster for businesses to create ads on a large scale.

As of January 2026, Intel (INTC) shares are exhibiting "meme stock" characteristics, with high volatility driven by headline-driven sentiment—specifically U.S. CHIPS Act narratives and turnaround hopes—rather than strong fundamentals. Despite a 27% gain in early 2026, shares plunged 17% in late January due to weak Q1 forecasts.

 Key Aspects of Intel's Meme Stock Status (2026): 

Disconnect from Fundamentals: Analysts describe the stock as having "meme" tendencies, with price action driven by hype rather than earnings, as the company lags significantly behind competitors in AI growth.

Volatile Performance: After an 84% gain in 2025, the stock continued to rise early in 2026 before crashing. A January 2026, 17% drop wiped out over (\$46) billion in market value following weak guidance and supply constraints.

Turnaround Hopes vs. Reality: While investors are buying into the narrative of a "comeback" and potential government support, Intel is struggling with manufacturing, losing market share to AMD and ARM.

Risky Valuation: Some models suggest the "fair price" for the stock is significantly lower than its recent trading price, highlighting the speculative nature of the current valuation. 

On Tuesday, the image-sharing social media platform Pinterest announced it plans to lay off around 15% of its workforce. The company made the announcement in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 

https://www.fastcompany.com/91481805/pinterest-stock-price-pins-layoffs-today-2026-job-cuts-latest-to-cite-shift-to-ai-artificial-intelligence

https://www.fintechfutures.com/job-cuts-new-hires/wells-fargo-hires-faraz-shafiq-as-head-of-ai

Expect more layoffs as AI is adopted on a large scale. Amazon is laying off 20,000 highly paid corporate workers today, many of whom have AI skills.

Roll up your pants and pull out the shovel it's getting deep. Doesn't he know people were working from home?

“The massive layoffs aren’t because of AI; they’re a result of aggressive COVID-era overhiring.” - IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.

https://x.com/IndianTechGuide/status/1997909050046943474?lang=en&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/ai-related-tech-job-cuts-reach-almost-30-of-all-global-tech-layoffs/article

A new report details global tech industry layoffs in 2025. RationalFX compiled data from various verified sources. Worldwide, 244,851 tech jobs were eliminated that year. Approximately 69,840 roles were cut due to AI and restructuring. Amazon, TCS, and Accenture recorded the largest AI-related job losses.

In the times where nothing is what it seems is everyone getting the career assistant? It just seems an odd time to get it.
Does everyone get it?

Wise up.

A recent Zety survey highlights American workers' concerns for 2026. Zety's report indicates 49 percent of workers anticipate more job cuts. A majority, 65 percent, expect the U.S. job market to remain stable or decline. Inflation concerns and fewer remote jobs also trouble workers. AI and automation competition worries 48 percent of respondents.

https://www.cnybj.com/survey-nearly-half-of-workers-predict-rising-layoffs-in-2026/

SF and KB talk up Copilot all day long, its the reason we can rif so many people. But then they took away the ability to record meetings and get transcriptions. One step forward four steps back

Really... Really?
What a down grade. It looks more like the aol site from 1998 than a website from 2026…
This is clearly a sign of things to come. It looks like a landing page for one of these AI slop regurgitated news aggregate sites Honestly I'm almost sure someone said , just run it through ai.
Speaking of ai, what the fu-k are we doing there? It's 2026 and we have nothing to show in ai advances. Yeah sure managers are poorly copiloting their email responses and take out orders but what in the way of innovation? Something original and useful?

What a poor user interface and unintuitive layout. First we decouple from teams.... Kinda but since it's integrated with ms office suite which we use for everything we still have to use teams sometimes. Slack is a dumpster fire designed for codebros. I'd rather go back to skype than use that abomination.
Who is making these poor poor decisions on our tech? Are we just handing the company over to China when the SAIC contract expires in 2027. Have you looked at what they are doing? GMNA he's fallen WAY WAY behind.

They will be coming out very soon. AI is accelerating at a rapid pace. Remote days are numbered. Time to bring them all home.

AK spewing his typical stuff at the WEF in Davos. For the CEO of an American corporation, he seems real concerned about India's AI sovereignty.

"US AGI Is Overhyped": IBM CEO & India's IT Minister Talk India's AI Sovereignty At Davos 2026 --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqb29BAxTrs

Is India Behind US, China In AI? IT Minister, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Respond At Davos --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4bARzQmqkU

Why is Oracle struggling?
However, unlike its largest competitors, whose profits are paying for their data center projects, Oracle is borrowing heavily. Some investors are concerned the company will struggle to repay its debt if AI demand falls short of expectations. Oracle's business with OpenAI has added to investor concerns

• Amazon plans a second round of corporate job cuts next week, aiming to eliminate about 30,000 white-collar roles in total, according to sources cited by Reuters.
• Roughly 14,000 corporate jobs were already cut in October, and the upcoming round is expected to be of a similar size, potentially starting as early as Tuesday.
• The layoffs are expected to hit AWS, retail, Prime Video, and human resources (People Experience and Technology), though details could still change.
• CEO Andy Jassy said the cuts are driven mainly by company culture and excess bureaucracy, not by short-term finances or AI replacing workers.
• Earlier, Amazon had linked job reductions to AI-driven efficiencies, and Jassy has said the corporate workforce will continue shrinking as AI boosts productivity.
• The full 30,000 cuts would equal nearly 10% of Amazon’s corporate workforce, though only a small fraction of its 1.58 million total employees, most of whom work in warehouses.
• If completed, this would be Amazon’s largest layoff ever, surpassing the roughly 27,000 jobs cut in 2022, with affected employees previously kept on payroll for 90 days to seek internal or external roles.

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-plans-thousands-more-corporate-job-cuts-next-week-sources-say-2026-01-22/

Before the DXC Q3 earnings call begins grab your DXC Bullsh-t Bingo card and listen closely for the following phrases:
“Strategic realignment under the new brand”
"AI-enabled transformation”
“Strong pipeline”
“More to come as the brand matures”
“We’re pleased with the progress”

The U.S. unemployment rate has risen to 4.6% since early 2025. Total layoffs reached one million in 2025, the highest since 2020. Artificial intelligence and company restructuring are major causes for these job cuts. PeopleFinders and Stacker identified 12 large metro areas with significant unemployment rate increases. Cleveland, Ohio, saw the highest increase, rising 0.8% between July 2024 and July 2025.

https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/stacker-money/2026/01/24/layoffs-are-rising-heres-where-americans-are-experiencing-the-most-job-disruption/

Anthropic’s Claude can already convert significantly complex SAS programming streams into Python and related libraries. Complex systems of nested macros might require human intervention, but these tools are only going to get better.

IOW, the years are getting shorter for expensive proprietary software like SAS. Recently spoke with someone who is a director at GSK and told me they no longer use SAS in any department she is aware of.

Have we reached a point where it is delusional to think that SAS can recover without coming up with some kind of strong AI-based niche play going forward? Given the acceleration of AI tools that can parse and transform complex programming languages, isn’t it more reasonable to think that SAS has maybe 3 to 5 more years of reliable renewable revenue instead of 8 to 10 more years?

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Autodesk announced layoffs affecting approximately 1,000 employees. This impacts roughly 7% of its global staff. The action completes a multiyear sales restructuring. Autodesk anticipates $160 million in restructuring costs, mainly for severance. The company plans to reinvest savings into AI and cloud technologies.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/autodesk-layoffs-san-francisco-21309967.php

Go take a look at the profile pictures of all of the usual “look at me!” suspects in IT. They’ve found a cool new superficial way to draw attention to themselves through artificial intelligence via photo filtering and touch ups of themselves. ROFLMAO!!

Nothing like taking a powerful business productivity tool and turning into your own personal Keurig for your vanity. Just go get the facelift you’ve been searching the web for, will you?

https://www.webpronews.com/medias-2026-reckoning-layoffs-surge-mergers-stall-ai-reshapes-newsrooms/

Media companies started 2026 with deep staff cuts. Over 17,000 jobs vanished in 2025, an 18% increase. Mergers stalled, and AI continued to reshape newsrooms. Digital ad revenue faltered, intensifying pressure on publishers. Audiences now hold significant sway over the industry's future.

Straight from Davos:

• JPMorgan Chase CEO Warns AI Could Cause Civil Unrest

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon discussed AI's impact on jobs at the World Economic Forum. He warned AI could lead to civil unrest if not managed properly by society. Dimon urged businesses and governments to collaborate on worker support programs. This support includes retraining, income assistance, and relocation aid. He suggested a slow AI rollout and potential government regulation to prevent mass layoffs.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91479436/jaime-dimon-wants-government-to-restrict-ai-layoffs

Citigroup Plans March Layoffs for Senior Staff

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/large-cap/26/01/50108593/citigroup-plans-fresh-march-layoffs-targeting-senior-roles

Citigroup is preparing for another round of employee layoffs expected in March. These reductions will primarily affect managing directors and other senior employees. This is part of a larger plan to eliminate 20,000 roles by the end of 2026. CEO Jane Fraser noted automation and AI will reshape the bank's workforce. The company aims to simplify operations and boost productivity.

Wells Fargo Announces New Layoffs in West Des Moines

Wells Fargo announced 33 additional layoffs at its Jordan Creek campus. These job cuts in West Des Moines are effective March 20. This latest round brings the total Des Moines metro layoffs to 1,426 since April 2022. CEO Charlie Scharf has consistently warned of ongoing workforce reductions. He attributes these changes to efficiency goals and the impact of artificial intelligence.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2026/01/23/wells-fargo-layoffs-jordan-creek-west-des-moines/88318441007/

Management feeling now they actually have to do some actual work... no more sitting at a desk acting like you are working.

Wonder if management were tested on knowing job functions listed how many would pass? the company saved laying off management? i hear they are happy and plan on AI management lol

If Dan's plan is for AI to take over, I hope it is nothing compared to the current use of AI. Every time I call or chat I have to go through AI. By the time I get to a human, I am pi---d off because the way they have AI set up is garbage, useless and a waste of time. Why do we purposely put barriers in place to get something resolved? No wonder customers are upset.

Most of us just got laid off. We knew Bending Spoons acquisition would be bad, we just didn't realize how bad it'll be. I'm not worried about my team. They're amazing engineers, everybody should be lucky to have them join their team. But that doesn't make this sting any less. And all for AI everybody hates.

Kel B just sent out a message saying that we will achieve client success by using AI. People are getting fired left and right, morale is terrible, FT call center is getting closed and all they can say is AI. This is beyond stupid. She schedules her meetings almost every month and it's all about AI, that's the best you can do??

They're just slowly getting rid of everyone, first by offshoring and then with AI. They don't seem to realize that ki-ling jobs also degrades or ki-ls your products. But hey, no job is safe anymore anyway, I guess, so it is what it is.

A standardized platform across CSG first will help work out the bugs in Maverick. This will pave the way for the training of the AI replacement for financial and Logistics teams, and to some respects Support.
Any bugs will be at first blamed on the users so management will spend a month threatening those is sees as saboteurs. ISG will be next to see if it scales up to the needs of those products.
A year or so of training will give the AI enough info to become full-fledged replacement. I will be leaving the day my bonus hits my account. I have a new job lined up starting April 6.

This was online this morning. It says layoffs to continue through March.

T-Mobile is undergoing significant layoffs across multiple departments, with recent cuts confirmed as of January 2026. Employees in sales, business units, call centers, and engineering have been affected, particularly supervisory staff—reports indicate 75% of supervisory roles are being eliminated. The Dedicated Experts team experienced a wave of layoffs from Monday to Friday, with leadership and hourly employees impacted.

These changes are part of a broader digital transformation strategy driven by new CEO Srini Gopalan. T-Mobile is aggressively pushing its T-Life app, which now has over 90 million downloads, and integrating AI-powered customer service via a partnership with OpenAI. As a result, roles tied to in-person or phone-based support are being reduced.

T-Mobile has not disclosed the exact number of layoffs but confirmed "some changes" while continuing to hire. The company is also restructuring retail operations, with rumors of new "Consumer Account Executives" in stores for small businesses and increased pressure on staff to use T-Life for upgrades and sales.

Layoffs are expected to continue through the end of Q1 2026, with no official hiring freeze confirmed despite earlier rumors. Employees in Washington state, including Bellevue, Bothell, and Snoqualmie, were impacted in a prior round affecting 121 workers starting October 2025.

For real-time updates, employees and the public are monitoring Reddit (r/tmobile) and TheLayoff.com

Elon Musk reveals roadmap with nine-month cadence for new AI processor releases, beating Nvidia and AMD's yearly cadence — Musk plans to have the highest-volume chips in the world

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-reveals-roadmap-with-nine-month-cadence-for-new-ai-processor-releases-beating-nvidia-and-amds-yearly-cadence-musk-plans-to-have-the-highest-volume-chips-in-the-world

Saw it on the news today

https://opentools.ai/news/oracles-bay-area-shake-up-layoffs-hit-oci-and-aiml-teams

Next 75 figured it that it would look amazing, to use AI software for QA for customer service, cutting out accenture and in house employees..

Funny part is they have no idea, that AI software sold to them, is in the early adoption phase.. AI software makers are making big corporations adopt, once they are absolutely dependent on them, the licensing costs will be through the roof with contracts requiring money to get out, whereas people are easy to fire and hire. People wage growth is a laughable to BIG AI hiking up licensing cost 2 X - 3 x every 5 years

You just played yourself, all your data and operational capability belongs to us. Best part the VP and Director who signed off on this wont be even be there, next time licensing price is hiked

Fresh off a favorable decision in its $2 billion legal dispute with a competitor, Pegasystems Inc. is cutting jobs.

The Waltham-based software company eliminated "less than 100 global positions" in its consulting organization last week as clients adopt Pega's new AI products, according to an email from a Pegasystems spokesperson on Monday.'

https://www.nbcboston.com/boston-business-journal/massachusetts-based-software-company-cuts-dozens-of-jobs-in-ai-push/3876352/

https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2026/01/16/bank-america-wells-fargo-ai-job-cuts

What’s the reward to finish work? More work! I am exhausted with or without AI