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Challenger, Gray & Christmas
US outplacement firm whose monthly report is the most-watched tally of AI-attributed job cuts.
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#21 1 Oct
Published September job-cut and hiring-plan figures
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Challenger ranks AI fifth in US job cuts#20 3 Sept
Recorded AI falling to fourth place among stated layoff reasons as total cuts rose 58%
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Challenger drops AI to fourth place#19 5 Aug
Mentioned in: New York Fed: adoption up, sackings rare
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#19 5 Aug
Mentioned in: Kyndryl books $152m charge, announces no layoffs
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#19 29 Jul
Counted July job cuts and their stated causes
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Fewer US cuts, more of them blamed on AI#18 21 Jul
Produced the cumulative American AI-layoff count misreported as German
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Monday.com denies AI drove 630 job cuts#16 2 Jul
Recorded 45,849 announced US job cuts in June
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Challenger: US cuts fall 53% in June#14 20 Jun
Mentioned in: Tracker logs 267 layoff rounds in 2026
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#12 5 Jun
Released May 2026 report tallying 38,579 AI-attributed cuts, 40% of total announced reductions
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: AI cuts hit record 38,579 in May#12 4 Jun
Tracked 753% pharma sector cut increase year to date
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Mentioned in: Biotech cuts 85% of staff, not for AI#9 8 May
Published April 2026 report recording 21,490 AI-attributed cuts and 69% collapse in hiring plans
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: BLS April report: tech absent, GenAI paper still missing#6 14 Apr
Mentioned in: AI industry raises $125M v. regulators
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#6 10 Apr
Stanford: AI costs 34 hires per layoff
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#6 10 Apr
#5 6 Apr
Goldman counts 25,000 jobs lost monthly
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#5 6 Apr
“reconciled estimates against dataset”
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#5 6 Apr
#6 3 Apr
Mentioned in: Fed admits: no single AI adoption figure
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#5 1 Apr
Cumulative AI-attributed US cuts cross 107,000
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#4 1 Apr
AI now leads all US layoff reasons
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#4 1 Apr
#4 1 Apr
#5 1 Apr
#2 22 Mar
Mentioned in: Dell quietly cut 36,000 over three years
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#2 22 Mar
Mentioned in: One in five Q1 tech layoffs blame AI
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 17 Mar
Mentioned in: Warner and Hawley bill would log AI layoffs
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 17 Mar
Mentioned in: US payrolls miss by 142,000 in February
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#2 10 Mar
Mentioned in: Atlassian cuts 1,600 to self-fund AI bet
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#14 1 Mar