Oracle announced on Monday that it has cut its workforce by 21,000 over the past 12 months, a 13% reduction, more cuts than previously known, including job cuts due to artificial intelligence. “The adoption and implementation of AI technologies in our operations has and will result in a reduction in our workforce,” the company said. annual financial regulation documents.
The announcement puts new numbers on what many in the tech industry feel is an epidemic: companies are reporting record revenues while decimating their workforces, pointing to artificial intelligence as both an engine of growth and a cause of layoffs. Technical cuts have hit their jobs the highest single month Challenger, according to Gray & Christmas, in May and AI was the most cited reason.
We recently wrote why this logic is companies may want to reconsidernot least because for many of these companies, the number of workers they’re currently cutting was hired during the pandemic, raising questions about what’s really going on. Below, in reverse chronological order, is a look at the bigger tech companies that announced significant AI layoffs this year.
GitLab — June 3, 2026. In one of the most recent layoffs on this list, GitLab laid off about 350 employees. 14% of its employeesFunding AI infrastructure investments and handling increased traffic from AI workflows. CEO Bill Staples said agency workloads were “pushing competitors over the edge” and the company had begun a “generational rebuild” of its core infrastructure to support the company’s 100x growth demands. GitLab is exiting 22 countries, adjusting management layers and partnering with an unspecified artificial intelligence lab to rebuild its platform for agent-scale workloads. The company expects first-quarter revenue to rise 23% year-over-year to $264 million and spend $30-35 million on restructuring costs.
Google – lasts until May. Alphabet has Google he interrupted quietly Employees of the Cloud division, including the Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant-affiliated cybersecurity staff, even as Cloud revenue grew 63% to more than $20 billion for the first time, and its backlog nearly doubled to more than $460 billion. Over the past year, Google has laid off more than a third of managers overseeing small teams — 35% fewer managers with fewer direct reports. Unlike most of the companies on this list, Google has never announced a single total number – the cuts have been made through a performance review process, a voluntary buyout program and a restructuring, with outside estimates putting the 2026 total at between 1,500 and 3,000+.
Intuit — May 20, 2026. Intuit announced plans to phase out about 3,000 jobs — about 17% of its total workforce — in a restructuring focused on reducing complexity and reallocating resources toward artificial intelligence. CEO Sasan Goodarzi told employees that the company is reducing complexity and simplifying the structure so it can deliver better products.
Meta — May 20-21, 2026. Meta cut about 8,000 jobs, about 10% of its workforce, while moving about 7,000 to new AI-focused roles (they is reported to hate). Zuckerberg told employees that the layoffs were necessary because “success is not given” in artificial intelligence.
Cisco — May 14, 2026. Cisco announced that it was almost cut off 4000 jobsabout 5% of its workforce, despite reporting better-than-expected earnings and revenue. CFO Mark Patterson he said: “It wasn’t really a savings-driven restructuring… it’s more (about) a resource restructuring around silicon, optics, security and artificial intelligence.”
Cloudflare — May 7-8, 2026. Cloudflare cut nearly 20% of its workforce (1,100 people), posted quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, up 34% year-over-year, and highest single quarter in company history. CEO Matthew Prince wrote that “The vast majority of our layoffs last week were measurement people” — middle management, finance, legal, internal audit and revenue recognition.
General Motors — May 12, 2026. GM said it was reassessing its workforce needs amid uncertain market conditions, cutting 500 to 600 jobs, mostly in IT roles in Austin, Texas and Warren, Michigan. A person familiar with the layoffs told CNBC about it AI played a role in the decision but that was not the only reason. GM said in a statement that it is “transforming the Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future.” Despite the cuts, the company still had about 80 open IT positions, including roles in artificial intelligence, motorsports and autonomous vehicles.
Coinbase — May 5, 2026. The cryptocurrency exchange said it is laying off about 700 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at eliminating market volatility and improving AI efficiency. The company has trimmed its organizational structure from CEO and COO to five levels, and said it will experiment with “one-person teams” combining engineering, design and product roles. CEO Brian Armstrong wrote that AI has dramatically changed the pace of work — “engineers Artificial intelligence dispatches work that would take a team weeks in days” — and said the company should “use artificial intelligence in every aspect of our work.”
PayPal — May 5, 2026. PayPal has announced that it plans to cut about 20% of its workforce — north of 4,500 jobs — over the next two to three years as part of a turnaround strategy based on the adoption of artificial intelligence and organizational simplification. CEO Enrique Lores told investors the company will “aggressively embrace AI” in its development processes and created a new “AI transformation and simplification” team that reports directly to him, tasked with redesigning the company’s processes “by function.” Lores described the cuts as removing organizational layers, and said AI will move beyond coding into customer service, support operations and risk management.
Microsoft — April-May 2026. Microsoft has offered structured buyouts such as voluntary separations, without disclosing how many employees it would affect. CFO Amy Hood said total headcount decreased year-over-year in the fiscal third quarter and will continue to decrease as the company focuses on “creating high-performing teams that work with speed and agility.” amid growing AI investment.
Snap — April 16, 2026 Snap was rudely interrupted It accounts for 16% of the global workforce — nearly 1,000 full-time employees — and closed more than 300 open roles, with CEO Evan Spiegel citing AI developments as a key driver. “Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are enabling our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase speed and better support our community, partners and advertisers,” Spiegel said in a memo to the SEC. The company says it’s already seeing small groups using AI tools to drive improvements in Snapchat+, ad platform performance and infrastructure efficiency.
IBM — until 2026. Between the cuts in Q4 2025 and the Red Hat engineering layoffs in April 2026, estimates put between 3,000 and 9,000 U.S. position eliminations, bringing IBM’s cumulative total since September 2024 to over 15,000. Bloomberg reports that IBM plans to triple its US entry-level hiring for AI and hybrid-cloud roles, despite about 200 HR positions being replaced by AI agents. An IBM spokesperson described the 4th round of 2025 regular balancing affecting a “low single digit percentage” of the global workforce.
Atlasian — March 11, 2026. Cut by Atlassian 1600 jobs (10% of the workforce) to “rebalance” AI and enterprise sales, despite the stock rising nearly 2% on the news. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said: “Our approach is not ‘AI is replacing people’. But it would be disingenuous to claim that AI isn’t changing the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It is.”
Dell — January 30 (although announced in March 2026). Dell’s overall workforce is down 10% In fiscal year 2026 – approx 11,000 jobs — about 97,000 workers from 108,000 a year ago, $569 million spent on layoffs. The cuts come as Dell predicts AI-optimized server revenue will double in fiscal 2027.
Oracle — March 5-31, 2026. As mentioned above, Oracle began telling employees that it would cut thousands of jobs. through terminal emails. The cuts came even as Oracle’s quarterly net income was $3.7 billion, up 27% year-over-year, and remaining operating liabilities rose 325% to $553 billion — savings that went to AI data centers. A total of 21,000 layoffs will be made over the next 12 months, Oracle announced in its June 22 annual report.
Block — February 26-27, 2026. Jack Dorsey’s Block cut 4,000 jobs — nearly half of its workforce, down from 6,000 from more than 10,000. Dorsey wrote in X: “We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re building and using, combined with smaller and more nimble teams, are enabling a new way of working that’s fundamentally changing what it means to build and run a company.” He added: “I think most companies are late. I believe most companies will come to the same conclusion over the next year and make similar structural changes.”
Salesforce — February 10, 2026. Salesforce has cut less than 1,000 jobs in marketing, product management, data analytics and Agentforce AI. Company Fortune said“Because of the benefits and efficiency of Agentforce, we’ve seen a reduction in the number of support jobs we handle and no longer need to actively fill support engineer roles.” That’s after cutting about 4,000 customer support roles earlier, shrinking that team from about 9,000 to 5,000, with CEO Marc Benioff saying the company needs “fewer executives” as AI agents handle that work.
Amazon — January 28, 2026. Amazon cut 16,000 corporate jobsAfter 14,000 layoffs in October 2025 — about 9% of the corporate workforce in three months. The company said it’s part of “strengthening our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership and eliminating bureaucracy.” CEO Andy Jassy said in June 2025 that, “As we introduce more generative AI and agents, it should change the way we do business. We’ll need fewer people doing some of the work that’s done today…over the next few years, we expect that to reduce our overall corporate workforce as we gain efficiencies through the extensive use of AI.”
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