Jun 17, 2026 · 29 min · 15 segments
Aleks and Kevin look beyond the headlines to uncover why Silicon Valley is seeing thousands of job losses across some of its biggest tech companies, as the industry pivots towards AI. What does this…
Kevin FongHost
Aleks KrotoskiHost
Rachel ArthurGuest
Alberta DeVoreGuest
And this week, Kevin, we're going to be deep diving into some of the big job losses that have been reported coming out of Silicon Valley.
Over the last year, there have been 108,000 tech workers laid off in Silicon Valley, according to the website layoffs.fyi. And these are some of the biggest companies.
Well, look, something is rotten in the state of Silicon Valley, isn't it? And I guess perhaps we shouldn't be surprised.
If artificial intelligence should be capable of any feat, it should be capable of imitating the thing it was built in or the people who built it.
Are we looking at the beginning of the end for tech workers? Does the job apocalypse start with Silicon Valley? Or is it all just a little bit more complicated than that?
And this week, Kevin, we're going to be deep diving into some of the big job losses that have been reported coming out of Silicon Valley.
Over the last year, there have been 108,000 tech workers laid off in Silicon Valley, according to the website layoffs.fyi. And these are some of the biggest companies.
Well, look, something is rotten in the state of Silicon Valley, isn't it? And I guess perhaps we shouldn't be surprised.
If artificial intelligence should be capable of any feat, it should be capable of imitating the thing it was built in or the people who built it.
Are we looking at the beginning of the end for tech workers? Does the job apocalypse start with Silicon Valley? Or is it all just a little bit more complicated than that?
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