
Proton to re-interview staff on their AI use, with jobs at stake
An internal email says the November 4–11 interviews will feed a review of roles, responsibilities and continued employment at the ProtonMail maker.

An internal email says the November 4–11 interviews will feed a review of roles, responsibilities and continued employment at the ProtonMail maker.

The Voluntary Exit Offer covers staff up to level 70 in four countries, including Copilot and CoreAI teams; decisions are due in early December.

The cuts, about 4.5% of staff, landed alongside a 28% jump in third-quarter profit and a raised full-year earnings forecast.

About 60% of the cuts hit support functions including developers, and roughly 1,000 roles are already gone, CFO Anna Cross said.

48% of finance workers have been asked to use AI chatbots versus 25% in education and 18% in healthcare, per TripleTen's 2026 survey.

Summer 2026 unemployment for recent grads came in at 7.3%, well inside the 6.3%–7.8% range seen since 2022.

The 150-year-old telecom has shed more than half its workforce in a decade and is retiring copper across 85% of its footprint.

The Horowitz Andreessen Academy will take 50 students, skip degrees and homework, and route them into OpenAI, Palantir, Google, and Meta.

A 42,151-person global poll finds 76% in Australia and South Korea and 71% in the US bracing for AI-driven job losses over 20 years.

The Indian IT services firm's CTO frames the shift as capacity reallocation rather than layoffs, but the math points the same direction.

Job seekers pay $30–$50 a month to game applicant tracking systems that employers may not even use for ranking.

98% of adjuster reviews mentioning AI are negative as employment in the sector drops 21% year-over-year and entry-level postings fall by half.

Watney, Kinova, and ABB robots are running trials in Altoona and Ohio, with one bot targeting up to 80% of a technician's workload.

The former Salesforce AI CEO says agents collapsed 10-day, 10-step processes into minutes — and predicts one in five corporate roles is at risk.

Employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs has fallen 11% since 2022, while less-exposed peers grew 10%.

CEO Matthew Karch says no writers were replaced by AI; former lead writer Stella Sacco says she was cut in December 2023.

Christian & Timbers projects a 2,100% surge in demand by year-end as enterprises race to turn AI spend into measurable ROI.

The automaker plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting in 2028, while South Korean workers strike over pay and retirement age.

39,000 South Korean workers walked out as Hyundai plans 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas units across its plants starting 2028.

Signed by Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI executives alongside Nobel laureates, the statement says AI could transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution.

London staff say HR was sent in place of executives; CWU calls the opening meeting a time-wasting exercise.

A Ramp and Revelio Labs study finds the biggest AI spenders are hiring faster, including entry-level — but only if they were already winning.

Two more Gemini researchers join a wave of defections to Anthropic and OpenAI, weeks after Google paid $2.7B to bring Noam Shazeer back.

SignalFire's data shows engineering roles fell just 11% from 2019 hiring levels, far less than the 25% drop across all tech functions.

The cuts mark one of the largest white-collar reductions tied directly to AI adoption at a major enterprise software vendor.
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