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U.S. tech layoffs through August at least 94,046, 16.8% ahead of the same stretch in 2025.

Roger Lee at Layoffs.FYI says AI was cited in 33% of tech layoff events this year.

In 2024, it was 1%.

The explanation got popular faster than the productivity the same tracker shows the summer cooled do not let august's small month erase the year do not let the year erase the cool down the new york fed asked the firms in its business survey only four percent of service firms laid anyone off because of ai in the past six months manufacturers zero 15% of those service firms said they hired fewer people than they otherwise would have.

But two milestones deserve recording because the quiet week sits inside a loud year.

On the 10th of September, layoffs.FYI's count for 2026 reached 128,536.

That passes 2025's full year total of about 122,600, with nearly four months to spare, and fewer companies are cutting, but cutting deeper, 299 so far this year, against 1,194 in 2023, roughly 430 people per event.

In the United States, Challenger, Gray and Christmas count 155,000 tech job cuts through August, up 52% on the same period last year, while announced cuts across all industries fell 41%.