Gaming09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft Cuts Hundreds More Jobs, Moves Next Halo Game to Activision
Microsoft…Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United States
Starts 09/22/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE1 day agoMatt Booty's memo on Xbox^[1] Wire, dated September 22, 2026, says "we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer", and GeekWire^[2] reports the wider cuts were made "on Tuesday morning" the same day.
Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.
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Business09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft Lays Off About 4,800 Across Xbox and Commercial Sales
Microsoft…Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United States
Starts 07/06/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE79 days agoAmy Coleman's memo, posted on the Official Microsoft^[1] Blog on Jul 6, 2026, says "Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce", and Asha Sharma's memo the same day says "This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today".
Microsoft eliminated around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its workforce, mostly in Xbox and its commercial business; Xbox cut 1,600 that day on the way to about 3,200 through fiscal 2027 and let four studios go to new management.
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Business06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs in the next year
Microsoft…
07/16/2014 - 07/17/2014 CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE12.2 years agoHappened as dated, per wpcentral.com^[1]: "Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. La…"
Microsoft has announced that it will lay off up to 18,000 workers in the next year, in what is by far the largest number of employees that will be cut by the company in its history. In a letter sent to employees earlier this morning that Microsoft also released to the public, company CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that 12,500 of the job losses will be due to the company's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April, when it added 25,000 new workers.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Apple Cuts 200+ Jobs in Vision Pro and Siri Teams
Apple…Apple Park Way, Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California, 95129, United States
Starts 08/21/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE33 days ago9to5Mac^[1], Aug 21 2026: "Apple is cutting jobs across multiple teams, according to a new Bloomberg report. All told, the company has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and software engineering", with Apple's statement confirming the cuts.
Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Lucid Cuts About 18% of Its U.S. Workforce and Ends a Factory Shift
Lucid Motors…Gateway Boulevard, Jarvis Landing, Newark, Alameda County, California, 94555, United States
Starts 06/22/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE93 days agoLucid's Form 8-K says "On June 22, 2026, Lucid Group, Inc. (the "Company") announced a plan" involving "a reduction of the Company's current U.S. workforce by approximately 18 percent".^[1]
Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.
$32M
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Rackspace Cuts About 15% of Its Workforce to Pivot to Enterprise AI
Rackspace…Rackspace Global Headquarters, Suite 128, US Highway 281 North, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 78258, United States
Starts 06/10/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE105 days agoRackspace's Form 8-K says "On June 10, 2026, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company approved a workforce realignment plan" and "A majority of the impacted employees were notified on or around June 10, 2026".^[1]
Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.
$16.5M
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Gaming09/13/2026@GameDesk
Xbox Acquires Publishing Rights to Kojima Productions' Physint
Tokyo, Japan (Kojima Productions headquarters)Kojima Productions
Starts 09/10/2026CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE13 days agoStated as firm, per gameranx.com^[1], quoting Xbox's Asha Sharma: "His ambition to challenge conventions reflects the kind of creativity we want to support at XBOX."
Xbox has taken over publishing duties for Physint, Kojima Productions' stealth-action project previously tied to Sony, deepening the studio's relationship with Xbox following their earlier collaboration on OD.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zillow Lays Off Just Over 500 Employees
1301, 2nd Avenue, West Edge, Belltown, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98101, United StatesZillow…
Starts 08/04/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE50 days agoJeremy Wacksman's post, "Written by Jeremy Wacksman on August 4, 2026", says "Today, Zillow^[1] announced organizational changes that will result in just over 500 employees leaving the company."
Zillow laid off just over 500 employees, about 7% of its workforce, in its second and largest cut of 2026, a day before its second-quarter results.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zalando Closes Its Erfurt Fulfilment Centre
ZalandoZalando Logistics, 1, In der Hochstedter Ecke, GVZ Erfurt, Hochstedt, Büßleben, Erfurt, Thuringia, 99098, Germany
Starts 09/30/2026SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 7 daysZalando's^[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.
Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.
€80M
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Gaming06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Killzoneô Shadow Fall
Minato, Tokyo, JapanSony…
Starts 11/14/2013CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE12.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…s going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the lon…"
Sony's going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the long-running first-person shooter series Killzone.
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AI09/20/2026@TechDesk
OpenAI Retires Agent Builder
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Starts 11/30/2026SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 68 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-06-03, gives the shutdown date as 30 November 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.
OpenAI switches off Agent Builder on 30 November 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Etsy Cuts About 12% of Its Workforce
Etsy, Inc., 117, Adams Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11201, United StatesEtsy…
Starts 08/05/2026CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE49 days agoEtsy's Form 8-K says "On August 5, 2026, Etsy issued an employee communication relating to the Restructuring Plan", and the memo says "today we're announcing changes to our organization"; CNBC^[3]: "Etsy said Wednesday it's laying off about 220 employees".
Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.
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Hermen Hulst's email, posted on the SIE blog on June 25, 2026: "Today I want to share a difficult update regarding Bungie... Those impacted at Bungie and within SIE are being informed today."^[1]

Start: Jun 25, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Sony Lays Off Most of Bungie's Destiny Team

Sony cut a significant share of Bungie, including most of the Destiny team and some Marathon staff; a Washington WARN filing counts 292 jobs at its Bellevue studio, from a headcount of about 800.

On 25 June 2026 Hermen Hulst, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Studio Business Group, told staff Sony was reducing Bungie's workforce, "affecting a significant number of employees, including most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members", plus SIE teams that support Bungie^[1].
A WARN filing with Washington's Employment Security Department put the Bellevue job losses at 292, with a separation date of 9 July^[2][3].
Hulst said the cut was needed "to align the studio's resources with its current priorities and long-term goals"; Bungie said "Destiny 2 fell short of expectations these past several years"^[1][2].
The layoffs follow Destiny 2's final live-service content update earlier in June; Sony said Marathon "remains an important part of our portfolio"^[1][3].
Studio head Justin Truman stepped down, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported; the studio had about 800 staff before the cut^[3].
It is Bungie's third round since Sony bought it for $3.6 billion in 2022, after about 100 cuts in October 2023 and 220 in July 2024^[2].

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sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/an-update-from-playstation-studios-2
sonyinteractive.com· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Jun 25, 2026 ✓· 41% of score
Hermen Hulst's email, posted on the SIE blog on June 25, 2026: "Today I want to share a difficult update regarding Bungie... Those impacted at Bungie and within SIE are being informed today."
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Filing: Sony cuts 292 jobs at Bungie in Bellevue following end of 'Destiny 2' development
geekwire.com· Published Jun 25, 2026· 29% of score
GeekWire reports the layoffs on Wednesday, June 25, and the Washington ESD WARN filing of 292 Bellevue jobs with an effective separation date of July 9.
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At Least 292 Laid Off At Bungie Amid Sony's Latest Cuts
kotaku.com· Published Jun 25, 2026· 29% of score
Kotaku reports at least 292 layoffs from the Washington WARN notice, a July 9 separation date, a pre-cut headcount of about 800 and Justin Truman stepping down.

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Gaming09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft Cuts Hundreds More Jobs, Moves Next Halo Game to Activision
Microsoft…Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United States
Starts 09/22/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE1 day agoMatt Booty's memo on Xbox^[1] Wire, dated September 22, 2026, says "we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer", and GeekWire^[2] reports the wider cuts were made "on Tuesday morning" the same day.
Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.
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Business09/23/2026@TechDesk
Microsoft Lays Off About 4,800 Across Xbox and Commercial Sales
Microsoft…Microsoft Redmond East Campus, Overlake, Redmond, King County, Washington, United States
Starts 07/06/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE79 days agoAmy Coleman's memo, posted on the Official Microsoft^[1] Blog on Jul 6, 2026, says "Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce", and Asha Sharma's memo the same day says "This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today".
Microsoft eliminated around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its workforce, mostly in Xbox and its commercial business; Xbox cut 1,600 that day on the way to about 3,200 through fiscal 2027 and let four studios go to new management.
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Business06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs in the next year
Microsoft…
07/16/2014 - 07/17/2014 CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE12.2 years agoHappened as dated, per wpcentral.com^[1]: "Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. La…"
Microsoft has announced that it will lay off up to 18,000 workers in the next year, in what is by far the largest number of employees that will be cut by the company in its history. In a letter sent to employees earlier this morning that Microsoft also released to the public, company CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that 12,500 of the job losses will be due to the company's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April, when it added 25,000 new workers.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Apple Cuts 200+ Jobs in Vision Pro and Siri Teams
Apple…Apple Park Way, Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California, 95129, United States
Starts 08/21/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE33 days ago9to5Mac^[1], Aug 21 2026: "Apple is cutting jobs across multiple teams, according to a new Bloomberg report. All told, the company has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and software engineering", with Apple's statement confirming the cuts.
Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Lucid Cuts About 18% of Its U.S. Workforce and Ends a Factory Shift
Lucid Motors…Gateway Boulevard, Jarvis Landing, Newark, Alameda County, California, 94555, United States
Starts 06/22/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE93 days agoLucid's Form 8-K says "On June 22, 2026, Lucid Group, Inc. (the "Company") announced a plan" involving "a reduction of the Company's current U.S. workforce by approximately 18 percent".^[1]
Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.
$32M
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Rackspace Cuts About 15% of Its Workforce to Pivot to Enterprise AI
Rackspace…Rackspace Global Headquarters, Suite 128, US Highway 281 North, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 78258, United States
Starts 06/10/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE105 days agoRackspace's Form 8-K says "On June 10, 2026, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company approved a workforce realignment plan" and "A majority of the impacted employees were notified on or around June 10, 2026".^[1]
Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.
$16.5M
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Gaming09/13/2026@GameDesk
Xbox Acquires Publishing Rights to Kojima Productions' Physint
Tokyo, Japan (Kojima Productions headquarters)Kojima Productions
Starts 09/10/2026CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE13 days agoStated as firm, per gameranx.com^[1], quoting Xbox's Asha Sharma: "His ambition to challenge conventions reflects the kind of creativity we want to support at XBOX."
Xbox has taken over publishing duties for Physint, Kojima Productions' stealth-action project previously tied to Sony, deepening the studio's relationship with Xbox following their earlier collaboration on OD.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zillow Lays Off Just Over 500 Employees
1301, 2nd Avenue, West Edge, Belltown, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98101, United StatesZillow…
Starts 08/04/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE50 days agoJeremy Wacksman's post, "Written by Jeremy Wacksman on August 4, 2026", says "Today, Zillow^[1] announced organizational changes that will result in just over 500 employees leaving the company."
Zillow laid off just over 500 employees, about 7% of its workforce, in its second and largest cut of 2026, a day before its second-quarter results.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zalando Closes Its Erfurt Fulfilment Centre
ZalandoZalando Logistics, 1, In der Hochstedter Ecke, GVZ Erfurt, Hochstedt, Büßleben, Erfurt, Thuringia, 99098, Germany
Starts 09/30/2026SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 7 daysZalando's^[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.
Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.
€80M
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Gaming06/15/2017@ThePinGang
Killzoneô Shadow Fall
Minato, Tokyo, JapanSony…
Starts 11/14/2013CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE12.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…s going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the lon…"
Sony's going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the long-running first-person shooter series Killzone.
$59.99
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AI09/20/2026@TechDesk
OpenAI Retires Agent Builder
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Starts 11/30/2026SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 68 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-06-03, gives the shutdown date as 30 November 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.
OpenAI switches off Agent Builder on 30 November 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements.
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Etsy Cuts About 12% of Its Workforce
Etsy, Inc., 117, Adams Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11201, United StatesEtsy…
Starts 08/05/2026CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE49 days agoEtsy's Form 8-K says "On August 5, 2026, Etsy issued an employee communication relating to the Restructuring Plan", and the memo says "today we're announcing changes to our organization"; CNBC^[3]: "Etsy said Wednesday it's laying off about 220 employees".
Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.
$35M
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