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Squarespace is laying off about 19% of its workforce, roughly 300 employees, as it restructures amid disruption from AI-powered vibe-coding website builders. The company is pushing into AI with tools like Blueprint and its upcoming Forma platform.

Squarespace is laying off 19% of its workforce, affecting around 300 of its 1,800 employees, as the website-building company moves to 'simplify' operations ahead of its next phase of growth.

The article examines how San Francisco's AI boom is failing to benefit unemployed tech workers, highlighting a widening gap between booming AI hiring and those still struggling to find work after layoffs.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees as Satya Nadella signals AI will shrink its workforce, with headcount falling year-over-year for the first time in a decade as the company prioritizes AI infrastructure investment over staff costs.

Microsoft is offering buyouts to up to 60,000 workers as part of cost-cutting tied to AI adoption, with eligible staff at VP level and below across the US, Canada, India, and the UK. The post questions whether shrinking headcount industry-wide leaves laid-off workers with few places to land.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its global workforce, as it manages costs amid heavy investment in AI infrastructure and data centers.

EA is shutting down storied RPG studio BioWare after more than three decades, ending early development on the next Mass Effect project amid 400 job cuts across the company following its $55 billion take-private deal.

EA is shutting down legendary game studio BioWare and cancelling the next Mass Effect game, laying off around 400 staffers following its $55 billion take-private deal.

WIRED 撰文指出，《侠盗猎车手 VI》级别的超大型 AAA 游戏正在推高开发成本并加剧行业裁员潮，游戏产业虽创收 2000 亿美元却深陷‘成功与裁员并存’的悖论，行业应停止盲目追逐更大规模的游戏。

Netflix宣布将裁员约1,000人，占其员工总数的6%，这是该公司迄今最大规模的一轮裁员，主要影响产品、技术、人力资源和法务团队。

Epic Games 已无限期推迟其未公布的《星球大战》与漫威联动射击游戏，并要求开发团队转向「AI 优先」工作流（包括使用 Anthropic 的 Claude 和全 AI 生成美术）。CEO Tim Sweeney 在 X 上表示，Epic 的目标是「在 AI 革命中生存下来」，并预计明年效率将提升至少 3 倍。

Gergely Orosz 观察到 Airtable 裁员后仅约 930 人，而运营约 20 个产品（含 Evernote、Meetup、Vimeo 等）的 Bending Spoons 人数不到 900，凸显以极小团队运营多产品的新商业模式趋势。

Epic Games, after laying off 1,000 employees earlier this year, is now delaying its Disney project and instructing staff to use full AI workflows with 'no more hand-written code' to finish the game, a move that has stunned and upset remaining employees.

Airtable CEO Fedesimio announced layoffs of a large part of the team, framing it as a bet that small teams ship better, while unveiling new Core, Performance, and Infra teams and upcoming features like upgraded Omni, Canvas, and MCP support.

一名资深工程师的个人随笔，讲述自己如何被 AI 工具（Fable）取代而遭裁员，并反思 LLM 目前尚不足以真正替代有经验的工程师，尽管 AI 叙事正成为裁员与岗位外包的借口。

作者观察到，AI 采纳的最大阻碍往往不是技术问题，而是在裁员或强调效率的背景下，员工不敢反馈 AI 工具的失败，导致反馈回路中断、部署悄然劣化，最终被误认为 AI 不适用。

The Center for Humane Technology, the nonprofit co-founded by Tristan Harris that helped drive the movement against excessive screen time, is laying off most of its staff and shifting to a 'founder-led' model amid internal tensions over its strategy.

Red Hat is reportedly being gradually absorbed and dissolved by IBM, with employees leaving, badges replaced by IBM branding, and open-source culture eroding across its subsidiaries like Nordcloud and the quantum teams.

Microsoft gaming chief Asha Sharma denied reports that Xbox is up for sale, saying the company will pursue restructuring and partnerships instead. Microsoft plans to lay off up to 3,200 Xbox employees and reshape the division into a more streamlined, wholly-owned subsidiary.

The article examines how AI-driven automation is reshaping India's six-million-strong IT workforce, citing Nasscom data showing revenue growth outpacing employment, major layoffs at TCS and Oracle, and the global inequities in AI-driven job displacement.