India, July 1 -- Intel cut around 24,000 jobs. Microsoft cut more than 15,000. The list of tech layoffs 2026 is really long. The list also includes PayPal, Cisco, Cloudflare, LinkedIn and Coinbase, with tens of thousands of tech jobs lost across the industry in 2026. The message in all the headlines is the same: AI did this. Dig deeper into the organisations tracking job losses in 2026 and things get more complicated - and more useful if you're trying to save your job, not just be afraid of the loss of jobs to AI.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the outplacement firm that tracks major US layoffs, says AI is only the fifth most common reason cited for layoffs in 2026, and their data shows that AI is only the fifth most common reason for 202...