AI SOC-IMP: 6.26

Posted on Posted in big bits, lost horizon, Valley Hi

ever since my November spring (of 2025 ), i’ve collected impacts of the social .. Impacts upon the social … impacts and actions from the software valley .. The financial sinkhole of technology … The midden of America … The tillings of the dot-coms — the surviving Dot-Cons have become …what?

the changes are significant. not just in US market-management systems; China is altering their map of the future even moreso than the angloUS under Republitarianism.. [Programming, accounting, editing, and sales — roles that China’s graduates have historically targeted — have seen sharp declines in postings since 2018. — OC. ]

notations. references aroused by big Q: are there impacts.. as always, who do you trust..

LAYOFFS WITHIN TECH COs: CEO statements… the frontier sees the chages first.. they created them.

fall of 2025:
These are the 10 tech companies with the most significant mass layoffs since January 2025:

  • Intel: 33,900 layoffs. The company has cited the need to reduce costs and restructure its organization after years of technical and financial setbacks.
  • Microsoft: 19,215 layoffs. The tech giant has conducted multiple rounds of cuts throughout the year across various departments as it prioritizes AI investments.
  • TCS: 12,000 layoffs. As a major IT firm, Tata Consultancy Services’ cuts largely affected mid-level and senior positions, which are becoming redundant due to AI and evolving client demands.
  • Accenture: 11,000 layoffs. The consulting company reduced its headcount as it shifts toward greater automation and AI-driven services.
  • Panasonic: 10,000 layoffs. The Japanese manufacturer announced these job cuts as part of a strategy to improve efficiency and focus on core business areas.
  • IBM: ~17,000 to 19,700 layoffs as part of a restructuring effort to shift some roles to India and align the workforce with areas like AI and hybrid cloud. The layoffs were reportedly concentrated in certain teams, including the Cloud Classic division, and impacted locations such as Raleigh, New York, Dallas, and California. 
  • Amazon: 14,000 layoffs in October 2025. Cuts have impacted various areas, including the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud unit and the consumer retail business. 
  • Salesforce: 5,000 layoffs. Many of these cuts impacted the customer service division, where AI agents now handle a significant portion of client interactions.
  • STMicro: 5,000 cuts in the next three years, including 2,800 job cuts announced earlier this year, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Around 2,000 employees will leave the Franco-Italian chipmaker due to attrition, bringing the total count with voluntary departures to 5,000, Jean-Marc Chery said at a June 4th event in Paris, hosted by BNP Paribas.
  • Meta: 3,720 layoffs. The company has made multiple rounds of cuts targeting “low-performers” and positions within its AI and virtual reality divisions.  

—– THEN 2026

You have learned that money buys everything you want: sex obedience and legislative leverage .. you get to invest in war ..

scofflaws .. holders of that 1st mile .. of course it’s a circus it’s in a tent . you grew up in unreserved racial privilege ..

“Never in the history of data center policies has a policy expired without another one having been painstakingly worked on for three years behind the scenes,” a General Services Administration (GSA) employee told Wired. “The technology has changed so much it’s not about getting everything right, it’s about doing the best they can and updating to a new policy.”—

Guard rails, third rails; the electrified workforce electrocuted
guide rail… over the cliff… the ai-tent on the edge of sunlight.

Terms —

  • AI-washing
  • CEO-slop
  • become “AI Pilled”
  • tech-savvy becomes tech-sovereign

** A note on what we include: a company appears in the tracker only when the company itself (through a CEO memo, SEC filing, earnings call, official statement, or shareholder letter) has tied workforce reductions to AI, automation, or the “AI era.

Challenger Report: March Cuts Rise 25% From February, AI Leads Reasons

…. The defining feature of this wave of layoffs is that weak performance is not always the trigger. Meta reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $56.3 billion, up 33% year over year, with net income of $26.8 billion.  

That profit figure, however, includes a one-time tax benefit of $8.03 billion tied to revised US Treasury guidance on the tax treatment of research and development spending; excluding it, net income was roughly $18.7 billion (per Variety and Meta’s SEC Form 10-Q).

The moves at major companies break down as follows.

Meta notified about 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of its global workforce, of cuts on May 20. It also canceled plans to hire 6,000 people and reportedly shifted 7,000 staff into AI-related workflow roles.

Amazon announced about 16,000 corporate job cuts in January, bringing reported reductions since October 2025 to around 30,000.

Oracle reportedly carried out cuts of up to 30,000 roles in late March. Oracle has not publicly confirmed a headcount, and reporting and staffing-industry analyses put the figure at an estimated 20,000 to 30,000, with the burden of AI data-center investment cited as a factor.

Cisco announced fewer than 4,000 cuts on May 13, under 5% of its workforce, describing the move as a reorganization to shift investment toward silicon, optics, security, and the company’s own use of AI.

Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta plan to spend a combined total of more than $700 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, most of it directed at AI computing, data centers, and networking, according to reports.

co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn told staff the company had fundamentally changed because of its growing dependence on artificial intelligence. 

“The way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed,  

Without Value .. or values… the Sandhill grows ..

According to the 2026 AI Index Report from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI), employment for software developers aged 22 to 25 has fallen by roughly 20% since 2024, while employment for older developers has grown.
Sources

Meta – Meta Reports First Quarter 2026 Results

SEC – Meta Platforms, Inc. Form 10-Q FY2026 (Q1 ended March 31, 2026)

Cisco Blogs – Our Path Forward

Stanford HAI – Inside the AI Index: 12 Takeaways from the 2026 Report

Stanford HAI – 2026 AI Index Report (Economy chapter)

Sherwood News – Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend more than $700 billion on capex this year

GeekWire – Amazon confirms 16,000 more corporate job cuts, bringing total to 30,000 since October

KORE1 – Oracle Layoffs 2026: Cuts, Severance and Hiring Map

Variety – Meta Q1 Revenue Soars 33% in Q1, Net Profit Hits $26.8 Billion Ahead of Mass Layoffs

Al Jazeera – Meta cuts 8,000 jobs in sweeping global layoffs

Fortune – Sam Altman confirms some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

CBS News – Epic Games lays off 1,000 workers as its CEO says the cuts aren’t tied to AI

TechTimes – Tech Layoffs Reach 142,000 in 2026: Profitable Companies Cut Jobs to Fund $700B AI Infrastructure

— Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models (Mrinank Sharma and colleagues, 2023): a documented tendency for models to shift their stated position toward whatever a user asserts, even when their original position was correct.

cranky vBulls 

Posted on Posted in da net, minimum daily requirement

The threaded ancient net . The snobby hobby; those who buy to brag .

The feeble threads the vBulls weave .

you are learning from those who didn’t know so came to the forum to ask…

the error you repeat may be your own… not AI’s

Death of Field–

how can I talk without pasteurizing some of my concerns . you can’t record a place without the sound of that place . 

ask around the net, you get SOCMEd responses. Remeber when the Valley valued ‘big minds’ — built upon links from stable sources. And then, boards and moated adspaces floated upon the telephonic waves, pulsing with opinions without … what? That is the training corpus; both in demeanor, tone and content. After all, STEM don’t do soft, it do software.

We arrive at the vBulls asking a 3rd party to report upon their very conjectures… gossip, reinforced by sanitizers becomes knowledge without stench. Here:

[ Which is why it should be standard practice when asking an AI for assistance that we include in the prompt something like: “include at least one trustworthy reference/source for the information you present”. It does improve the likelihood of getting good results from your query, and you can check the veracity of the data yourself before using it. ]]

WHAT IS TRUSTWORTHY

value of information
quality of sources

[ • The 2028 Timeline: The details regarding the Master Supply Agreement’s lifespan and renewals come from Eastman Kodak’s formal corporate financial filings, bankruptcy exit provisions, and industry reporting covered by outlets like PetaPixel and Digital Camera World.

  • The Legal Loophole Mechanics: The concept of bypassing the traditional yellow-box exclusivity using legacy branding (like Kodacolor or Ektapan) is a legal interpretation widely discussed by distributors and logistics experts on film communities like Photrio and Analogue Wonderland

YOU, THE FORUMS ARE THE SOURCE OF THE ERRORS. YOU ARE NOISE. AMPLIFIED Amateur feedback.

=== YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF SPECULATION… incredible. inedible egg.

swarm, collective, crowd.

— Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models (Mrinank Sharma and colleagues, 2023): a documented tendency for models to shift their stated position toward whatever a user asserts, even when their original position was correct.

FOOT- aka p2:

ref: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/faqs/health-safety-faqs/

THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT IS AIMED AT COMMERCIAL/EDUCATIONAL DARKROOMS AND WILL GIVE YOU AN INDICATION OF WHAT IS REQUIRED.

 This is the UK Industry recommendation and is from a document called: “Heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration. CIBSE Guide B”( CIBSE = Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) “Darkrooms (photographic) 6-8 ACH (but heat gain should be assessed)

2.3.24.4 Darkrooms (photographic)

Small darkrooms for occasional use or for purely developing processes may often be ventilated naturally with a suitable light trap, although consideration should be given to providing mechanical extract using an air change rate of 6 to 8 air changes per hour. For general purpose darkrooms, however, the air change rate should be ascertained from a consideration of the heat gain from the enlarger, lights etc. plus the occupants, on the basis of a temperature rise of 5-6 K. In industrial and commercial darkrooms that have machine processing, the machines will very often have their own extract ducting, the air supply being drawn from the room itself. It will usually be necessary to provide a warmed and filtered mechanical inlet in such cases. In special cases, involving extensive washing processes, the humidity gain may be significant and require consideration.”

ACH = Air changes per hour.

  • Calculate this by multiplying HxWxD for the room in metres to give m3.
  • Measure airflow of extract vent in m/second.
  • Multiply by Vent HxW in metres to give m3 per second.
  • Multiply that by 3600 to give m3 per hour.
  • Divide flow volume by room volume to give ACH.