The ECB Says 64% of Euro-Area Firms Use AI. Eurostat Says 21.37%.
A 13 October ECB speech prints 64%. Eurostat prints 21.37% for the same euro area. The 64 is two of four published categories, and any use is 71. We reconciled them.
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Four Numbers About Software Developers in One Story. Four Different Bases.
Postings up 15%, postings 27.5% below 2020, BLS projecting 10%, young developers down 20%. All four check out, and two describe mid-June. We redid the arithmetic.
Official Surveys Put AI Headcount Cuts at 2.0%, 6% and 11%. No Two Share a Denominator.
ONS published 6% on 8 October and the New York Fed cited a survey whose figure is 11%. A Census paper says 2.0%. Each counts a different group of firms, and one base is 373.
One Filing Names AI and Gives No Number. The Other Gives a Number and Says It Is Not AI.
FICO's 6 October 8-K lists AI among four methods and publishes no headcount. HubSpot's never says AI, and its CEO letter rules it out while naming nearly 660 people.
349,821 Active Job Ads Ask for AI Skills. In the Same Release, 13,636 Carry an AI Job Title.
CompTIA's 2 October release counts 349,821 active US postings requiring AI skills and 13,636 under an AI job title. Indeed's open data puts AI in 6.74% of US ads, up from 3.44%.
Pew's Table Calls 46% a 37-Country Median. USA Today Calls It the Global Average.
Pew's AI and jobs survey prints 46% as a 37-country median, one data point per country. USA Today calls the identical number the global average. Every country figure it quotes checks out.
Apollo's AI Wage Study Says 6.7%. At the Cutoffs Either Side, Its Own Robustness Check Says 1.89% and 1.74%.
Apollo's AI paper finds a 6.7% decline in real wage growth in 11 high-exposure occupations. Its robustness check gives 1.89% and 1.74% at cutoffs of 0.4 and 0.6, and says 6.7% sits between them.
The 55% Regret Figure Went Viral This Week. Its Fieldwork Ran in February 2025.
The 55% in this week's AI layoff coverage comes from an Orgvue survey fielded February to March 2025. It measures 55% of the 39% who made AI-driven cuts, and it carries no date in the story.
One Model Assumes 8.5 Jobs Per Megawatt. Twenty Planning Files Average 1.2.
A think tank rebuilt techUK's 40,200-job projection from 20 planning applications and got 10,400. Both sides use the same metric. The government calls it misleading.
They Predicted 32%. They Reported 14%. Now They Are Predicting 39%.
McKinsey's 2025 survey had 32% expecting AI head count cuts. Its 2026 survey has 14% reporting them, and 39% expecting them next year. Same survey, same cohort.
We Wrote About a -23,000 Payroll Print. BLS Just Revised It to +21,000.
BLS revised July 2026 payrolls up 44,000, from -23,000 to +21,000. The same August release has its own -23,000, in information, and never uses the word AI.
AI-Exposed Occupations Are Down 6%. AI-Exposed Firms Are Laying Off Fewer People. Same Release.
Revelio Labs reports AI-exposed occupations down 6%, and 19% for workers aged 22 to 25, alongside AI-exposed firms cutting fewer staff. Challenger puts AI fourth for August and first for 2026.
Oracle Told the SEC AI Is Cutting Its Workforce. The Four Numbers People Quote Count Four Different Things.
Oracle's FY2026 10-K names AI as a cause of workforce reduction, twice. The four Oracle layoff figures in circulation measure four different things, and one is unsourced.
Salesforce's Filing Counts 7 Billion AI Tasks. It Does Not Count Jobs.
Salesforce's Q2 FY27 filing reports 7.0 billion Agentic Work Units. Its own definition makes that a count of discrete AI-executed tasks, not a headcount number.
HP Told the SEC AI Enables Its Job Cuts. The Only Mechanism It Named Is Early Retirement.
HP's own SEC filings tie a 4,000-6,000 headcount cut to AI adoption. The only mechanism they name is a voluntary retirement offer for US staff aged 55 and over.
Stanford's Entry-Level Gap Went 15% to 19%. The Coverage Says 13% to 19%.
Stanford now puts employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs 19% below a kept-pace path. Coverage pairs that with 13% from last year. On the same measure, last year was 15%.
Challenger's AI Layoff Number Is 112,713. Its Hedged Number Is 12.
The most-quoted AI layoff figure counts employers who named AI in an announcement. The same report keeps a second, hedged category for a contested case. It holds 12 people.
An AI Boss Fired Its First Worker. It Had Quietly Excused 11 of 17 Late Arrivals.
Andon Labs published the case on 14 August 2026. The AI logged 6 of 17 late arrivals, needed a human prompt to decide, and people reviewed and delivered the termination.
Veritone Said Its Layoffs Would Take Seven Weeks. Now They Run Into 2027.
In June, Veritone told the SEC its workforce reduction would be substantially complete by late July 2026. The 10-Q it filed on 13 August 2026 says the first half of 2027.
The Steadiest Workers Lost 13 Points of Job-Finding. The Churn-Prone Lost 2.
A Richmond Fed brief published 12 August 2026 finds the job-finding decline is concentrated among strongly attached workers, particularly in AI-exposed occupations.
Two Companies Cut Staff and Credited AI. Their SEC Filings Don't.
Rapid7 and N-able each filed an 8-K on 10 August 2026 disclosing workforce cuts. Both CEOs invoked AI. Neither legally binding disclosure mentions it. Why that gap matters.
Payrolls Fell 23,000. BLS's Own Margin of Error Is 122,000.
BLS reported payrolls fell 23,000 in July 2026. Its own confidence interval on that monthly change is plus or minus 122,000. What the report can and cannot support.
One Fed Survey Says 1%. Challenger Says 33%. Both Are Right.
The New York Fed says 1% of service firms laid off workers because of AI. Challenger says AI was cited in 33% of July cuts. Four reasons the numbers cannot be compared.
AI Adoption Tripled. Headcount Mostly Didn't Move.
The ONS surveyed 38,637 UK businesses and the Fed asked nearly 750 executives. Both find adoption rising steeply and aggregate employment holding. The gap is the finding.
AI Isn't Devaluing Your Job. It's Devaluing Five Specific Tasks.
ADP Research and Stanford measured pay attached to individual tasks in IT jobs. Five declined after 2022, advisory work held. The sample is ~7,000 workers, and that matters.
The AI Act Deadline That Just Slipped Isn't the One That Protects You
The Digital Omnibus took force on 27 July and pushed high-risk AI obligations to December 2027. Article 50 transparency was left untouched and applies from 2 August 2026.
Even Amazon's AI Team Isn't Safe. Here's What Actually Predicts Exposure
Amazon cut staff inside its own AGI unit in July 2026. If proximity to AI is not what protects you, what does? The payroll evidence points at task structure, not job titles.
EU AI Act Article 4: What Organizations Need to Know About AI Literacy
The AI literacy duty has applied since 2 February 2025 and becomes enforceable on 2 August 2026. What the Digital Omnibus actually deferred to 2027 — and what it did not.
Which Jobs Will AI Replace First? An Evidence-Based Analysis
What 1,822 documented evidence entries across 506 companies say about where AI displacement is actually happening first — and where it has not started yet.
AI Upskilling ROI: How to Measure Your Training Investment
Most AI training is bought on faith and never measured. A practical framework: baseline first, then reclaimed hours, capability artifacts, and risk reduction.
From AI-Curious to AI-Native: The 4 Maturity Levels
Most AI training treats everyone the same, which is why most of it fails. The four maturity levels, how to self-diagnose yours, and what moves you up one.
Crystal Ball: How We Track AI Displacement Data Across 21 Industries
Inside the evidence base behind the Protocol: what a documented evidence entry is, how exposure scores are computed, and what the data can and cannot tell you.
AI Literacy for Non-Technical Professionals: Where to Start
You do not need to write code to be AI-literate. A practical four-week starting point for managers, analysts, and other knowledge workers — no engineering required.
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