Tech Careers
5 min read
Tech Layoffs 2026: How to Read the Cuts When You Think You Might Be Next
Last year I counted somewhere north of 80,000 tech jobs cut before Labor Day, and I only counted because I was trying to work out whether mine was going to be one of them.
Ai
4 min read
What Amazon Layoffs in Its AGI Unit Tell You About Where the Money Is Actually Going
In late 2025, Amazon cut jobs inside the unit building its most-hyped bet — artificial general intelligence — months after the roughly 16,000 corporate roles it had already eliminated.
Investing
6 min read
What Tech Layoffs Actually Tell You About Timing the Market (Less Than You Think)
The morning Meta closed at $88 in November 2022, a friend I'll call D texted me a screenshot of his brokerage account with three words: "I can time this." He had ridden the same shares down from $340.…
Fintech
4 min read
African Tech Layoffs in 2026: Why It Wasn't Mostly AI
When the first-half 2026 figures landed, I read the headline twice before I believed it: roughly 2,574 jobs cut across African tech in six months, about a 236% jump on the year before, per the reports…
Careers
4 min read
African Tech Layoffs Hit a Record: What the 2,574 Number Actually Measures
The number I keep coming back to is 2,574. That is roughly how many jobs disappeared from African tech companies in the first half of 2026, according to a count from TechCabal Insights that circulated…
Streaming
5 min read
The Entertainment Industry Layoffs That Follow a Hit: Why Success and Cuts Now Arrive Together
Consider a studio that clears the billion-dollar mark on a single title, watches a beloved sequel outperform its forecast, and then, within the same fiscal window, informs several hundred people that…