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Tech Layoffs 2025: AI and Tariffs Trigger Massive Job Cuts Across the Industry

AI automation, economic uncertainty, tariffs

It’s been a rough few months for tech - and it’s not just about Amazon anymore. The wave of layoffs that started with major names like Amazon, Google, and Meta has spread across the industry, and even beyond it.

In October alone, the U.S. jobs report showed that over 1.6 million jobs were cut nationwide. Tech made up a large portion, but manufacturing, retail, and logistics were also hit. Analysts say a mix of AI automation, rising tariffs

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Could Overusing ChatGPT Harm Your Critical Thinking? A Recent Study Warns

A stylized brain showing vibrant, active critical thinking on one side, and muted colors with AI/ChatGPT icons on the other, symbolizing the potential dulling of cognitive skills by AI over-reliance

You know how many of us use smartphones to navigate to a destination instead of figuring out the way ourselves? It’s super convenient - but then you hear stories about people blindly following GPS directions and ending up in rivers or stuck in strange places because they stopped paying attention or thinking for themselves.

So it’s really no surprise that the findings of a recent MIT Media Lab study show that relying too heavily on AI tools like ChatGPT can

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