{"id":242518,"date":"2026-07-12T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/tech-layoffs-hit-5-year-high-as-ai-accelerates-job-losses-and-crypto-isnt-immune\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:35:10","slug":"tech-layoffs-hit-5-year-high-as-ai-accelerates-job-losses-and-crypto-isnt-immune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/tech-layoffs-hit-5-year-high-as-ai-accelerates-job-losses-and-crypto-isnt-immune\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech layoffs hit 5-year high as AI accelerates job losses, and crypto isn&#8217;t immune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/tech-layoffs-five-year-high-ai-job-losses\/\">Tech layoffs hit 5-year high as AI accelerates job losses, and crypto isn&#8217;t immune<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/tech-layoffs-five-year-high-ai-job-losses\/\">https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/tech-layoffs-five-year-high-ai-job-losses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-12 09:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cryptobriefing.com\">cryptobriefing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The technology sector has implemented a 66% increase in job cuts year-over-year through May 2026, with AI-driven efficiencies cited as a primary reason, accounting for 40% of all cuts in May alone.<\/li>\n<li>AI is both genuinely displacing roles and being used to cover up over-hiring from earlier years during the zero-interest-rate era.<\/li>\n<li>Crypto companies, such as Dune and Crypto.com, are also laying off staff to integrate AI into their operations.<\/li>\n<li>The 2.2% layoff rate in the information sector signifies substantial structural changes rather than temporary blips.<\/li>\n<li>Investors should focus on tech firms&#8217; specific productivity gains from AI and whether output remains steady despite workforce reductions. For crypto firms, maintaining product development velocity is crucial amidst headcount reductions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech layoffs hit 5-year high as AI accelerates job losses, and crypto isn&#8217;t immune https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/tech-layoffs-five-year-high-ai-job-losses\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.cryptobriefing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/12091346\/tech-neck-exercises-simple-exercises-for-office-workers-800x420.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242520,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242518\/revisions\/242520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}