The AI layoff playbook is here

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People at a job fair
Announcements of job cuts at tech companies often touch on the same themes.

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Snap's layoffs highlight growing work trend: AI-powered tiny teams

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel

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We asked 12 gig workers how much they made in 2025. The answers varied wildly.

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Gig workers and the companies that pay them often talk about earnings in hourly terms.

That doesn't tell the full story, though.

I'm the CTO of a startup. Software engineering has changed so much that we've changed our hiring process.

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Andrew Hsu
Andrew Hsu is the cofounder and CTO of Speak, an AI language learning app.

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I make around $6,000 a month from my photo booth side hustle. It's on track to replace my corporate income.

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Michael Sim.

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LinkedIn CEO grades career moves: Cover letters get a 'D', while job-hopping earns an 'A'

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Ryan Roslansky, the LinkedIn CEO, is sitting on a couch with throw pillows decorated with the company's logo.
Ryan Roslansky, LinkedIn's CEO, gave several career moves letter grades.

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I turned my grandmother's recipes into a $1 million catering company that feeds people from Sergey Brin to Steph Curry

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Chef Rene Johnson poses behind a display of catering dishes.
Blackberry Soul Fine Catering has catered events for the staff of Google, former Vice President Kamala Harris, Stephen and Ayesha Curry, and the Golden State Warriors.

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These Gen Z artists cracked the code to getting a stable paycheck: snail mail clubs

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Gen Z artists have figured out how to lock in a stable stream of income: snail mail clubs.

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Lawsuits claim AT&T's CEO saw the relocation mandate as a way to replace older workers with younger ones

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AT&T Chairman and CEO John Stankey talks on stage during the inauguration of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the world's biggest mobile technology showcase and fair, on March 2, 2026 in Barcelona.
AT&T CEO John Stankey has said the company needs to move away from a culture of loyalty and tenure toward one that is more market-performance-oriented.

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I ran a busy finance firm in NYC, but my stress got worse when I had surgery. Now I help high-achievers manage illness.

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A woman looking into the camera in a car.
Sydney Sajadi needed emergency surgery, but found the aftermath worse.

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