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For what it’s worth, if the issue is foreign nationals using the software… Anthropic has filed LCA’s for 178 H-1B employees to work in America since 2020. 151 of those (85%) since 2025. The issue is not just the public, it’s from within.

FABLE 5 & MYTHOS TO BE DISABLED WORLDWIDE EFFECTIVE IMMEDITELY US gov export controls force Anthropic to disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 for everyone worldwide. "This is a misunderstanding," they say. So... is AGI here?

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·12h

The layoffs are almost a month old, yet the headlines keep rolling on this one x.com/LayoffAI/statu…

LAID OFF BY META. THEN DETAINED BY ICE. Per Wired, an employee cut in the May layoffs was detained by ICE almost immediately. Coworkers flagged it internally. No response. Meta declined to comment. No details on the visa type. So why were they employed in the first place? It's worth adding context on Meta's Pro-ICE stance as Zuck has tried to cozy up to this administration. Meta has spent the past year making itself useful to the immigration crackdown. In late January it started blocking links to the ICE List, a site that names roughly 4,500 federal agents and DHS staff using records mostly scraped from public pages like LinkedIn. Months before that, at the Justice Department's request, it took down ICE Sighting-Chicagoland, an 80,000-member group people used to warn each other when agents were nearby. Meta said the group broke its rules on coordinated harm. The company's hardware is in the field too. ICE and Border Patrol agents have been spotted wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses in at least six states, and were filmed using them on protesters in Evanston, Illinois, recording lights on. DHS has said it wants facial recognition built into glasses like these, though there's no confirmation agents have run live face scans yet. Around the same stretch, ICE ran stops near Meta's own data center construction site in Louisiana and detained workers headed to the job. And when DHS goes looking for the people behind anonymous accounts that track ICE raids, Meta forwards the subpoena and gives the user about ten days to fight it. Will be interesting to learn more on this one.

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LAID OFF BY META. THEN DETAINED BY ICE. Per Wired, an employee cut in the May layoffs was detained by ICE almost immediately. Coworkers flagged it internally. No response. Meta declined to comment. No details on the visa type. So why were they employed in the first place? It's worth adding context on Meta's Pro-ICE stance as Zuck has tried to cozy up to this administration. Meta has spent the past year making itself useful to the immigration crackdown. In late January it started blocking links to the ICE List, a site that names roughly 4,500 federal agents and DHS staff using records mostly scraped from public pages like LinkedIn. Months before that, at the Justice Department's request, it took down ICE Sighting-Chicagoland, an 80,000-member group people used to warn each other when agents were nearby. Meta said the group broke its rules on coordinated harm. The company's hardware is in the field too. ICE and Border Patrol agents have been spotted wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses in at least six states, and were filmed using them on protesters in Evanston, Illinois, recording lights on. DHS has said it wants facial recognition built into glasses like these, though there's no confirmation agents have run live face scans yet. Around the same stretch, ICE ran stops near Meta's own data center construction site in Louisiana and detained workers headed to the job. And when DHS goes looking for the people behind anonymous accounts that track ICE raids, Meta forwards the subpoena and gives the user about ten days to fight it. Will be interesting to learn more on this one.

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·13h

@GenFlynn Sounds like they are training their replacements if Suck-a-buck gets his way. They are gone whether they get out while they still can or just wait for the severance package!

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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

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General Mike Flynn@GenFlynn·14h

@LayoffAI Suck-a-buck stole the Facebook idea at the beginning of it all. He is not an innovator, he’s a common thief. People work in a gulag? Get out while you can.

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META IS AN ABSOLUTE MESS INSIDE RIGHT NOW Wired just dropped an exclusive, and the details are wild. This week someone interrupted a livestreamed Meta meeting, open to thousands of employees, with an expletive-filled rant about "being the company's bitch." They told the presenters to find a specific Meta AI executive and "tell him that he's a piece of shit." A presenter covered their face with their hands. Employees in the chat called the start "spicy." Here is what's behind it. Meta's AI restructuring cut 8,000 jobs last month, 10% of the company. The same restructuring feeds a unit called Applied AI, where 6,500 engineers and product managers have been drafted in waves since April. There is no application process. You get selected, and your options are join or leave the company. Members call themselves "draftees." The new job: writing puzzles and coding problems to train Meta's AI models, two tasks a week. People hired to build apps for billions of users now assemble training data for hundreds of AI scientists. "It's literally the gulag," one employee told WIRED. "You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." Another: "Most people find the work soul-crushing." At the same time, Meta started recording US employees' clicks and keystrokes to generate more AI training data. Over 1,600 employees signed a petition demanding it stop. The concession: employees can pause the tracking for up to 30 minutes. Zuckerberg's response came in an internal memo Friday: "We've made mistakes and will almost certainly make more." He repeated his promise of no more mass layoffs this year. His fixes: limits on the manager ratios Meta had deliberately pushed to 50-to-1 on some teams, bigger budgets for team events, a hackathon next month, and assigned desks by the end of the year. That same memo says Meta's north star is "to be the best place for the most talented people in the world to make an impact." The most talented people in the world are writing puzzles for a model and asking permission to pause the keystroke logger. META declined to comment.

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·18h

LINKEDIN GOT FEDERAL SIGN-OFF FOR UP TO 3,812 VISA POSITIONS IN ONE QUARTER WHILE LAYING OFF AMERICANS. Top worksite on the visa filings: Sunnyvale, 198. Cut in Sunnyvale July 13: 59. Same offices. Different story. LinkedIn is wholly owned by Microsoft.

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FABLE 5 & MYTHOS TO BE DISABLED WORLDWIDE EFFECTIVE IMMEDITELY US gov export controls force Anthropic to disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 for everyone worldwide. "This is a misunderstanding," they say. So... is AGI here?

Anthropic@AnthropicAI

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LAYOFF ALERT: JBS FOODS 🚨 Major Pennsylvania beef plant closing after 18 years. 1,485 jobs gone. No AI or foreign labor to blame here. Apparently this is due to a severe US cattle shortage. Herds sit at a 75 year low, and American workers are now starting to pay for it.

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ORACLE STOCK $ORCL DOWN 17% THIS WEEK AFTER ASKING WALL STREET FOR $40 BILLION MORE. The quarter looked perfect on paper. Revenue up 21%. A $638 billion backlog. Then the footnotes: Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centers, ran free cash flow of negative $23.7 billion, had already raised $48 billion, and still needs $40 billion more. The bill for the AI buildout keeps landing on someone else. Cost savings of 30,000 employees being laid off only covered about six weeks of it. Tennessee taxpayers covered 38 hours (see below). Oracle is in full “build it and they will come” mode on AI cloud infrastructure. Cloud infrastructure revenue grew 93% in Q4. The enormous backlog reflects real customer demand and prepayments for capacity. But Wall Street is clearly questioning whether the investment pace and funding needs are sustainable in the near term. The stock is still up ~25% since the March 31 layoff announcements.

Meet one of the 14 states that just hit all-time highs in foreign-born population. Tennessee. Gave Oracle $240M for its Nashville HQ. Got back a net of SEVEN jobs total. Then fired 30,000 Americans on April 1. Then filed 3,126 H-1B petitions. What's happening in the South?

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·1d

@ChiefEngineerCE Agree there is more to the story. Just one data point. The 105M stat is real, but it includes students/retirees. Among men 22-27 in the labor force, both degree and no-degree groups hit ~7%.

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Chief_Engineer@ChiefEngineerCE·1d

@LayoffAI BS There's 105 million working aged folks out if the workforce they just aren't counted after a few months.

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THE DEGREE PREMIUM FOR YOUNG MEN IS GONE US men 22-27 with a college degree are now unemployed at the same rate as men who never went. Both now sit at 7%

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·2d

CEO Oliver Blume is scheduled to speak at the Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2026. More granular information on how the cuts will be implemented and which areas are targeted could be shared then.

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LAYOFF ALERT: VOLKSWAGEN 🚨 19,000 GERMAN JOBS GONE THIS YEAR. 19,000! We previously reported on 50,000 jobs to be cut by 2030. Now, we shockingly learn that nearly 40% of those are coming this year.

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·2d

Adding 'First Martian layoffs' to the watchlist.

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In a 2007 interview, Elon Musk was asked about SpaceX’s competitors. His response? “We have no competition.” SpaceX’s valuation was $280 million. It IPO's tomorrow at 6,320 times that amount.

In a 2007 interview, Elon Musk was asked about SpaceX’s competitors. His response? “We have no competition.” SpaceX’s valuation was $280 million. It’s now worth 500 times that amount.

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UBISOFT PUT LAYOFF NEWS UNDER A PRESS EMBARGO This story is strange. Ubisoft treated news of 380 job cuts like a game reveal. The publisher behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, and Just Dance did something unusual this week: it put layoff news under a formal press embargo. Embargoes are normal in gaming when a publisher wants outlets to publish at the same time (usually for trailers or reviews). This week, that system was used for job cuts affecting around 380 roles. Ubisoft closed its studios in Winnipeg, Canada and Belgrade, Serbia, and made additional cuts at its Barcelona studio, which is being restructured to focus on Rainbow Six. Multiple outlets published the news at exactly the same time — 6pm BST — after receiving the information from Ubisoft under embargo. Two details stand out. According to Aftermath, some reporters say Ubisoft didn’t clearly explain what the embargo was about before they agreed to it. They were only told the company would “announce something soon.” Additionally, when Insider Gaming reported the news independently, Ubisoft contacted them about breaking an embargo they had never agreed to. Tom Henderson (Insider Gaming) said: “Personally, I think as an industry, we’re running into quite dangerous ground when we start abiding by embargoes about layoffs, but even more so when we publish the info like we learned it from sources rather than the company itself.” Ubisoft’s stated reason was that staff in Belgrade were still being informed. If that was the priority, the company could have waited until employees were notified before briefing the press with a synchronized publish time — and then pressuring outlets that didn’t participate. This is very different from normal practice. When similar news broke about Xbox yesterday, Bloomberg reported it first and the company responded afterward.

Nathan Grayson@Vahn16

having spoken to multiple reporters who agreed to it, I can confirm that ubisoft embargoed outlets from reporting on layoff news earlier today, and yeah, it’s a weird situation!

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BLOODBATH AT SERVICENOW? 🚨 We have confirmed 63 laid off in San Diego, but this LinkedIn post claims it is much larger. Here is what the data says: The 63-person San Diego WARN notice, effective Aug 17, is the only cut on public record. No SEC filing. No company-wide layoff announcement. The quiet cuts are real, though. ServiceNow gutted its entire Quality Engineering team on April 14, several hundred engineers told to reassign or take the package. Layoff trackers add roughly 600 more across January and February, plus a reported 500 globally in May. Then the CEO laid out the real plan to investors. On the April 22 earnings call, Bill McDermott said ServiceNow will freeze headcount through 2027 by not backfilling anyone who leaves and letting AI cover the work. At 27,000 staff, that is 3,000 to 4,000 roles a year that never come back. The "2,500 in one day" in the post is unverified. But the bigger thing he says is correct: ServiceNow is cutting by the thousands and calling it "restructuring" so it never trips a headline. The 63 in San Diego is just the slice the law forced into the open.

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LayoffHedge@LayoffAI·2d

@SigurdTorsten @nejatian Summer vacation? Shutting down the India office from the Bahamas, Kaz? @nejatian

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@LayoffAI @nejatian But his X account says the Bahamas?

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OPINION: OPENDOOR CEO KAZ @nejatian DESERVES PRAISE FOR ONSHORING AND LAYOFF ANNOUCEMENT At the very least, he has a really good PR firm taking notes. But their visa filings back him up too. Tech CEOs spent the past month botching layoff announcements. Cloudflare's CEO @eastdakota cut over 1,000 people and called them "the measurers" in his memo. Chamath's review on All-In: "Shut the fuck up. You suck at this." Webflow's CEO @YayLT announced cuts in a blog post about "the agentic web." Employees found out at 7am when their laptops locked. No email, no meeting. Nothing. GitLab CEO @bstaples announced a 7% cut for the "agentic era" while 80 roles sat open in India on LinkedIn. But yesterday, the Opendoor CEO took a different route. He's closing the India office, about 250 roles, and moving the work to US teams. No dressing it up either: he admits Opendoor will be "much smaller by headcount." So we pulled his filings. Since FY2023: 2 new H-1B approvals total, with LCA filings down 71% from their peak. 20 of 22 approvals were renewals or transfers for workers already here. The onshoring claim holds up. No quiet visa backfill. Cautiously optimistic. Credit where it's due. And now that one CEO has shown you can cut offshore and say it plainly, expect others to run the same playbook. We'll be checking their filings too.