Tootfinder

Source: CBS News is planning to lay off dozens of employees as part of an overhaul led by Bari Weiss; 11 employees of CBS Evening News took buyouts in February (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-news-l

CBS News plans to imminently cut dozens of employees as Bari Weiss remakes the broadcast network
CBS News plans to lay off dozens of employees. Top editor Bari Weiss previously suggested that staffing changes were ahead.

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technology/meta-layoffs-reality-labs.html

Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

Wine giant Gallo to lay off 90, shut down a key Napa facility - @…
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-20/wine-giant-gallo-to-lay-off-90-shut-down-key-napa-facility
'Customers are choosing quality, not quantity: they would rather buy fewer bottles and invest in a premium product, said Rob McMillan, Silicon Valley Bank’s executive vice president and wine expert.'
There is hope in (/for) America...

Amazon is lining up another wave of job cuts next week, according to reports, while Autodesk has confirmed 1,000 roles are to go in sales-related redundancies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/amazon-to-lay-off-thousands-mor…

Amazon to lay off thousands more while Autodesk confirms 1,000 jobs to go
Amazon is lining up another wave of job cuts next week, according to reports, while Autodesk has confirmed 1,000 roles are to go in sales-related ...

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html

Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams
The company said it's "reallocating resources" to roles and teams focused on artificial intelligence.

Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.

Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-week-…

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to cut around 50 positions, or ~15% of its workforce, with about half of them in the newsroom, as it seeks to cut costs (J. Scott Trubey/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/02/the-a

AJC is eliminating news and operations jobs, shifting resources to growth
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Tuesday it will lay off staffers in the newsroom and other segments of the business.

USAGM offers employees a chance to leave via a deferred resignation program, as a judge weighs the legality of earlier efforts to lay off most of the staff (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/voa-resignation-offers-employees-008…

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html

Sources: CNBC is planning an overhaul which will result in nearly a dozen layoffs, including the website's managing editor, and the introduction of a paywall (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel