#Cuts

Upwork cuts off 25% of its staff sighting slower growth and AI productivity gains Upwork doesn’t need Hayden Brown. She made the platform more expensive and worse.…

Exclusive: Bosses tell staff cuts part of effort to ‘simplify’ operations and ‘remove duplication’ across wider workforce

Democrats across battleground districts are holding Republicans’ feet to the fire over the Medicaid cuts in their signature One Big Beautiful Bill law.…

Viral medical horror stories could scramble Republican Sen. Roger Marshall's odds in the Kansas Senate race

South Africa endured its worst year of load shedding (scheduled power cuts by the country's utility, Eskom) in 2023. The power went off on 335 of the year's 365 days, often several times a day.…

The cuts mark American Express’s first major round of layoffs in nearly a decade

U2's Bono has called Elon Musk's DOGE cuts "unconscionable" and claimed the Republican Party has been "hijacked" by the Trump administration.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/barclays-ai-jobs-cuts.html “The bank’s chief financial officer, Anna Cross, told reporters on Thursday that the job cuts were part of plans to save more than £1.1bn in 2027.…

The sector has suffered massive job losses since 2022, prompting calls for unionization and worker protections.

EA's recently announced job cuts include many of the studios in its portfolio, including teams the company said would invest in.

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts list prices by 90% and adds adaptive thinking and a 1M token context window. Learn what broke from Haiku 4.5, and build classification, extraction, and sub-agent workflows in Python using the new API.

Aid cuts have meant that Somalia narrowly avoided famine at the start of 2026 after a series of climate shocks. The knock-on effects of fighting in Iran and Lebanon mean there is a real risk that it may not be so lucky next time.

Xbox is said to be laying off some employees this month, with two more waves planned for the near future.

eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, its second round of layoffs in 2026, as it shifts money to its fastest-growing areas.

Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.

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