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YOUR WHITE COLLAR JOB IS NOT SAFE
750 U.S. citizens? Certainly not.
More on the same at the LinkedIn post -- https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ibm-plans-750-new-ai-and-quantum-jobs-in-its-chicago-hub-8762946/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/ibm-to-add-750-jobs-in-ai-quantum-computing-at-chicago-tech-hub
By: Miranda Davis |
April 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT
International Business Machines Corp. is deepening its bet on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago, with plans to add 750 jobs over the next five years.
The positions will be focused artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cybersecurity and data science, according to a joint statement Wednesday from the company and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. IBM, which will get $19 million from a state tax-credit program, said it would also establish the FutureNow Chicago center at the tech hub.
The plans bolster Pritzker’s efforts to attract more jobs and business projects to the state, especially in advanced technologies. The quantum park, which was announced in July 2024 and broke ground last September, got a jump start from an initial $1 billion investment by Palo Alto, California-based PsiQuantum Corp. The facility will replace a closed US Steel plant on Chicago’s South Side.
“IBM’s investment in Illinois is a powerful vote of confidence in our state’s growing technology and quantum ecosystem and the world-class workforce that powers it,” Pritzker said in the statement.
The company said in late 2024 that it would establish a national algorithm center for quantum computing at the Chicago development, with partners including the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The state provided a $25 million grant for that project.
https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/oracle-layoffs-ai-tech-jobs/
Some are saying RIF’s are BS. I believe the opposite.
https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/ai-mad-verizon-to-continue-with-cuts-after-ceo-s-jobs-warning
Humana is facing significant controversies, most notably a class-action lawsuit alleging the use of an AI tool ("nH Predict") to wrongfully deny, limit, or terminate post-acute care coverage for Medicare Advantage patients.
Other issues include federal lawsuits over Medicare billing, data breaches, and a 2025 court loss regarding star ratings that risked billions in payments.
Key Humana Controversies and Lawsuits
AI Coverage Denials (nH Predict):
—A lawsuit alleges Humana uses the "nH Predict" algorithm, developed by naviHealth, to override physicians' recommendations and prematurely cut off rehabilitation or nursing facility stays for elderly patients. The suit claims these, which are "rigid and unrealistic predictions for recovery," are used to maximize profits.
—Medicare Advantage Fraud Allegations: Humana has faced multiple lawsuits under the False Claims Act. In 2024, they were involved in a $90 million settlement related to claims of overbilling the government for Medicare Part D prescriptions.
—Star Ratings Loss (2025): A Texas judge upheld a decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to downgrade Humana’s 2024 star ratings for certain plans. This loss threatens billions of dollars in revenue for the company.
—Illegal Kickback Allegations: Lawsuits have alleged that Humana paid illegal kickbacks to insurance brokers, such as SelectQuote, to steer consumers into their Medicare Advantage plans between 2016 and 2021.
—Data Breaches and Security: Humana has reported incidents where unauthorized parties attempted to access member accounts, and they have faced class action suits regarding the protection of sensitive patient information, including a 2026 incident.
—False Statements (OIG Violations): Humana previously agreed to pay over $411,000 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by making false claims/statements regarding "meaningful use" payments in their electronic health records.
These legal challenges have created volatility for the company's stock, particularly surrounding the profitability and quality of its Medicare Advantage business, which is the primary source of its revenue.
In my opinion, that start of Humana shifting from being a great place to work to being not so great a place to work are the following three factors entering the scene of the corporation.
—DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion)
—Cloud & AI (Artificial Intelligence)
—Outsourcing (H1B, Overseas, Contracting)
Just curious how game changing AI has been in various areas of the business. Is it giving greater capability or is it reducing the load?
Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-30/chinese-courts-rule-companies-cannot-fire-workers-simply-to-replace-them-with-ai-102439602.html
I think this is great and would force companies to work on long-term solutions to improve their products instead of short term solutions like layoffs which only increase share price to give the executive board more bonuses.
There was a good economics paper on this phenomenon recently:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617
The TL;DR of this is: companies are financially incentivized to automate as much as they can and it is very hard to change this. But when one company automates and lays off workers, that affects all other companies (since the workers no longer have wages to buy goods and services). If all companies are automating and laying people off, everyone ultimately makes less money.
They propose as the solution what is basically a tax on layoffs: if you lay people off, and those people don't get re-absorbed into the job market at equivalent or better-paying jobs, then you gotta pay the difference in wages as a tax. The money from that tax goes back to the workers (they propose partially for income replacement and partially for retraining).
From what I see, Germany and other vassal states are just copying the US as usual and trying to fire as many employees as possible to show their "AI efficiency". So I expect that SAP won't change their course unless there is intervention from the EU or the state to save the economy when the AI bubble bursts.
For those being laid off in risk, you know this bank is still in disarray. Risk a huge mess.
Take the opportunity to escalate what you have seen to the OCC. Detail the events.
Don’t focus on DF telling everyone to “play with AI in your jobs” with minimal to no governance. Report the big stuff. Ops Risk/RCSA. Compliance.
The future of renewals relies on the stickiness of enterprise software. The gamble is that customers will tolerate bot-only support and sting renewal price hikes because the cost of migrating away is too high.
The company is moving to a No Human Interaction model where AI agents (utilizing the Aviator framework) serve as the primary interface. These bots handle everything from initial outreach to basic tier negotiation. The goal is to transition customers to an automated, self-service portal where renewals are processed as take it or leave it transactions.
This removes human negotiation but also eliminates the firewall that previously prevented customer churn. This automation is the technical justification for the reported 15–20% RIF planned for early F27. The company is stripping out its overhead cost to inflate short-term profitability.
what we are witnessing is the closest thing to an ENRON fiasco !!
CEO and board colluded to artificially bump the stock up using the 20 BILLION $ buy back....money we actually can't earn anymore from the market ....and selling AI hype !!!
compute will NOT take off....auto is low margin cr-p....nothing will replace apple business....and what do they do ? they spend every last dime on bumping the stock...
nice more buying those 125k call options as well...they literally are bumping the stock and making money off the shorts squeeze !!!
i wish they put more time in actually building a better company that capable employees would wanna work for long term !
To see any law passed in US will take decades, by the time that happens US job markets will be dead and people become poor. Oh well the capitalism.
Can someone explain to me what this team does besides using IBM Watson to monitor use cases and do reporting?
Do not think about chatbots. Do not think about AI (pick any ChatGPT etc) writing an email or summarizing a meeting.
That is not the real threat.
The real threat is the dozen projects happening behind the scenes that are automating back-office work. Every major consulting company now has platforms for this. They are clunky today, but they are getting better every day.
The question is: what parts of your job can be broken into steps, stitched together, checked by another system, and handed off to an AI agent?
Not every job. Not every task. Not everything a person does in a day.
But the hard parts? The repetitive parts? The parts where you pull data from one system, compare it to another system, create a report, update a case, send a message, escalate an exception, review a document, check a policy, validate a form, summarize an issue, route a request?
That is exactly what they are building.
And it works.
It does not have to be perfect. It only has to remove enough work to reduce headcount. Then humans become reviewers, exception handlers, and cleanup crews. Then the AI gets better. Then the exceptions get smaller. Then the human layer gets thinner.
My guess: we have about 2 years before this starts rolling out more visibly. Around 5 years for a serious ramp. In 10 years, anything in banking that can be automated will be automated.
Every single company in our industry is looking at this. Every single one.
If you like self-harm follow the PAM dude who constantly shares AI slop on LinkedIn. That's a full time job bro.
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.
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.
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.
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
Here’s the current tech market we all work in, and a warning below:
“There are many different ways to lose your job. On Thursday, two tech giants decided to take different paths in dispatching thousands of their employees.
First there was Microsoft, which is said to be offering voluntary retirement to thousands of its workers. About 7% of of its US employees will be eligible for the buyouts, something the legacy giant has never previously done at this scale.
Then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. The company shot out a memo on Thursday saying it planned to terminate 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, starting May 20. Meta employees have spent much of the year fretting about job cuts, which already hit the Reality Labs division and other teams. Now many more are coming.
So what’s driving the continuing, arguably accelerating series of mass terminations across tech companies? AI.”
WARNING
FIS are pushing AI usage really hard.
They will tell you it’s an amazing new tool that will revolutionise what you do.
Maybe.
But ultimately it is a tool that must pay for itself just like any other. And more than that - it’s providing corporations with an easy way to reduce resource costs.
The next time you load copilot at FIS and automate something or speed up tasks - what you are actually doing is helping FIS to eventually reduce headcount.
Everyone su-king up to AI right now needs to wake up and think about this. You are not an AI champion, you are an AI as-----n.
If you lose a trusted colleague or one day you yourself get that tap on the shoulder - you only have yourself to blame…
Dear Intel HR, and Lip BuTan,
My former undergrad mate went to Wharton (MBA finance), entered the industry and was mentored by the likes of Dan Niles. His view on justifiable Head Count for Intel Inc.
Design team = 20,000
Manufacturing = 40,000
Total = 60,000
Scrutinize, double scrutinize and triple scrutinize each and every engineer and upper management, especially the dead wood at HIGHER grades. Most of them are needless overheads and only serve to drag the company down. This is the ERA of AI assisted development...
Leverage AI assisted development to layoff DEADWOOD.
As an INTEL INC's investor (long term) and a significant retail investor of INTEL INC.,
I humbly request the above in the BEST interest of Intel Inc - for all INTEL employees, all investors, all partners, and the entire semiconductor industry, ...
Thanks and best wishes,
A US citizen and Intel Inc long term investor
We all see the massive cost, lack of efficiency, and the lack of ROI.
AI is massively subsidized by companies burning money to prop it up. For every dollar we spend the AI company loses $3-8, SERIOUSLY LOOK IT UP! At some point they will need to turn a profit. If that was today it would mean increasing the cost 300-800%. The hope is making it more efficient, but can they really make it 300-800% more efficient in the near future? Open AI burns 100 BILLION DOLLARS a year, without making a dollar. Even if they make it 200% more efficient, they will still need to more than double the price to make any money.
With how leadership is "adopting" the AI future, AI won't replace jobs, the massive unstoppable loss will.
Anthropic and OpenAI are honey potting companies like BNY into building infrastructure supported by thier products and will lock us in to a massive bill we can't avoid.
If you care about longevity in your career or a stable and evolving strategy...stay away from Cigna. Not sure whose bright idea it was to have a group of fresh college kids and HIH create an AI slop fest of tech. Not to mention all the senior technologists are the ones who managed to create a cr-p show for us at express scripts.
Expect them to do what they did to a lot of us in esi.
Run. Run far and away
https://youtu.be/2oivxM6K4pw
Meanwhile I'm here, where they outsource more yearly and we have Project LLM (Project Literally Lose Millions) to accelerate slop to force us all to swim so slowly in garbage. Omg
While the media fawns over Michael Dell hitting the $1B mark in "donations" to UT Austin, let’s look at the predatory math behind the headlines. This isn’t a gift to the public; it’s a masterclass in how billionaires use the Trump-era tax code to privatize our social policy.
Dell isn't donating "hard-earned cash." He’s offloading highly appreciated stock to his own private foundation to wipe out his tax liability. Every dollar he "saves" in taxes is a dollar stolen from the public treasury—money that should have funded basic community clinics and rural hospitals. Instead, it’s being funneled into high-tech "AI medical hubs" that serve as high-interest monuments to his corporate interests.
The "20-year promise" of his child investment accounts is even more insulting. He’s promising a few thousand dollars for a child in 2045, paid for by the massive tax breaks he gets today. Meanwhile, those same parents are drowning in healthcare costs. Family premiums have jumped nearly 50% in a decade, and high-tech centers like Dell’s only drive those costs higher by forcing an "innovation arms race" that hospitals pay for by hiking your rates.
We are literally subsidizing billionaire legacies with our own medical debt. This is the endgame of extreme neoliberalism: a world where the 0.1% decides who gets to survive based on which social problems look best on a building. We don’t need more billionaire "favors"; we need a tax system that doesn't treat the middle class like a piggy bank for the elite.
To Project LLM
Literally Losing Millions
Fiserv CIO doesn't use nor understand AI properly even as a fintech and throw an LLM at everything even in finance. So I think the name makes sense. hbu?
If you can imagine Gen AI doing your job, you need to be looking for a new job because you can bet your bottom dollar it's only a matter of time (and not that much time) before you are replaced.
Roles are going to Poland or AI.… “too much work” that’s what they say. Now they track how long we are active, production expectations through the roof, people getting ROD or PIP…. I heard June and July. Possibly FIU first?
https://hoodline.com/2026/04/oracle-plugs-san-jose-ai-data-centers-into-massive-bloom-energy-power-deal/
Oracle is locking in a mountain of electricity for its AI ambitions, signing on for up to 2.8 gigawatts of Bloom Energy fuel-cell power to feed its data-center buildout. An initial 1.2 GW is already under contract and is being rolled out across Oracle projects this year and through 2027. The deal highlights how the AI bo-m is forcing cloud giants to secure their own on-site power instead of waiting in line for slow utility interconnections.
Some of the employees that were recently laid off due to “AI” are being replaced by previous DISH employees in Boulder with no AI experience and a new title at Qualcomm. Sounds like the new CIO is bringing in ex-DISH employees to replace perfectly good San Diego employees.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/
Here’s the real situation on Qualcomm layoff rumors right now — what’s confirmed, what’s circulating internally, and what’s just speculation.
🔍 What’s Confirmed (Public, Verifiable)
These are not rumors — they’re official:
• A small WARN filing (5 employees) in San Diego for May 26, 2026
• Previous rounds in 2024–2025:• 226 employees across 16 San Diego sites
• Earlier 1,250+ cuts less than a year before
• Qualcomm continues targeted, small-scale reductions as part of its shift away from smartphone dependency toward AI PCs, automotive, and edge compute
These are documented and not rumor-driven.
🔄 What’s Rumored (Inside the Industry)
These are circulating in semiconductor circles, but not confirmed by filings or press:
• Several engineers report that Qualcomm may continue small WARN filings (5–20 people) throughout 2026
• Pattern matches the April 2026 filing
• These would be team-specific, not company-wide
• Because Apple is reducing reliance on Qualcomm modems
• Some internal chatter suggests select modem sub-teams could be trimmed
• No official documents yet
• Snapdragon X Elite and AI PC roadmap are pulling resources
• Rumor: some legacy teams may be merged or dissolved
• This usually leads to role eliminations or reassignments
• Not layoffs, but a shift in headcount allocation
• Some groups feel “frozen” while auto/AI groups continue hiring
• This often precedes targeted cuts
🧭 What’s NOT Happening (Despite Online Speculation)
These rumors are false or exaggerated:
• ❌ No evidence of a large mass layoff
• ❌ No sign of a 10%+ workforce reduction
• ❌ No confirmation of layoffs tied to the rumored Intel acquisition exploration
• ❌ No broad hiring freeze across the company
Qualcomm is doing surgical, strategic cuts, not sweeping layoffs.
📌 Why Rumors Are Spreading Now
Three reasons:
When a company shifts strategy, rumors fill the gaps before official announcements.
Very positive article, as it's nearly proof-of-concept that we're one step closer to getting executives completely replaced by AI bots.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agent-saving-ibm-consulting-leader-hours-every-week-2026-4
By: Tim Paradis |
Apr 9, 2026, 1:06 PM CT
Dave McCann oversees thousands of humans, and also an AI agent he named after himself: Digital Dave.
One of the most valuable things it does is conduct research, including on the company's customers. That's a big help for McCann, who, as a global managing partner for transformation at IBM Consulting, is responsible for thousands of clients, including Nestlé, Ericsson, and Riyadh Air.
The agent — it's actually a collection of AI agents and assistants — scans McCann's calendar for client meetings and drafts a list of 10 things he needs to know for each one. The goal, McCann told Business Insider, was to free up time he and his staff spent preparing for the meetings.
Under the old setup, people on his team would put together a briefing document with him and typically have a 30-minute prep call ahead of the client meeting.
"All that's now gone," said McCann, who is tasked with helping transform the global IBM Consulting business, which has nearly 150,000 employees.
He generally talks with about 10 clients a week, so the agent saves him roughly five hours of prep time, McCann said.
"All the time I used to invest in client prep, I can now see more clients," he said.
Freeing up the team
McCann's research agent, which he and his team began building this past fall, is based on a tool that a group at the company had started to develop as part of an annual internal competition.
The agent reviews in-house data, what IBM and the client are doing in the market, external data, and account details — such as project status and services sold and purchased, McCann said. It can also identify industry trends and client needs by, for example, reviewing a firm's annual report and identifying a corresponding service IBM could provide.
Digital Dave also saves McCann's team time, he said, because the three or four staffers who used to spend hours pulling together insights for the prep calls are now free to do other work.
"It's not just about driving efficiencies, but it's really about transforming how work gets done," McCann said.
The agent's research abilities aren't limited to client reports. McCann has also begun using it to help him assess the hundreds of IBM Consulting partners he evaluates each year. The goal, he said, is making informed decisions and giving the execs good advice about their strengths and weaknesses as part of their performance evaluation.
McCann said the data the agent reviews can include the services execs sold and the profits they generated, the training they provided, and the impact they had on their teams' development. Before the agent, he said, his approach involved perhaps a dozen spreadsheets culminating in "the worst pivot table of your life."
Now, McCann said, all of the data goes into a model, and he can ask pointed questions and make queries about top performers in a particular parameter.
'That multiplier effect'
One benefit of building agents, McCann said, is that IBMers who develop them can share them with others on their team or more broadly within the company, "so it immediately creates that multiplier effect."
Many of the people who report to him have created agents, he said. There's a healthy competition, McCann said, to engineer the most robust digital sidekicks, especially because workers can build off of what their colleagues created.
Across industries, companies are developing AI agents to take on knowledge work — especially tedious tasks — once handled by humans. From one-person startups to consulting giants, firms are using agents across functions such as HR, IT, finance, communications, and training.
Agents can handle a range of functions, including gathering information, processing paperwork, drafting communications, taking meeting minutes, and pulling research. It's still early, but these systems are quickly becoming a major focus of corporate AI efforts as companies look to turn generative AI into something that can actually take work off employees' plates.
One challenge McCann sees with clients and building agents is having access to data. IBM Consulting's most advanced clients — maybe a Fortune 100 or Fortune 500 company — might have given access to data to several hundred people, but not to 5,000 people in their finance division or 10,000 people in HR, McCann said. Concerns about security and how to manage the innovation can be roadblocks.
Until you unlock the data, individual workers might be able to get more done, but "you don't get that multiplier effect of the productivity," he said.
For McCann's work, Digital Dave means that he gets critical time back on his calendar.
"I can have much more focused attention out with our clients and with our humans while I have the operations of the business now being run more digitally," he said.
It feels like we are just playing a new meta… “look how much we are using AI for everything! Omg it’s amazing!”
Meanwhile, I’m dying to work on any customer problem. 😆 is it just me or are we in crazy town?
No need to give specifics, but I am just curious about everyone's experience with AI outside of conversational chat, so I'm not talking about prompting Copilot to help with summarizing stuff, helping debug a coding problem, or writing user stories... I mean like actually using Copilot agents to streamline tasks, etc.. I've found that in all the cases where we've tried to chase down AI tools or agents, all the ideas have failed to be implemented properly or are still ongoing, but not very hopeful about the end result.
I'm not anti-AI because I know that Copilot chat can be helpful, but when we get a push to add AI in everything, it's like we always go towards the conversational chat components and not in the other direction of actually innovative solutions like agents, etc. I am open to learning more since this seems to be the future, but I just haven't seen the return on investment from my perspective.
Why Oracle is cutting so deep, so fast
The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to analysis from TD Cowen, the job cuts are expected to free up between $8 billion and $10 billion in cash flow — money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers.