December 21: Jobs, Regulation, and the End of Easy AI Money

Government cuts dwarf AI layoffs, New York ignores the White House, and "AI for X" stops being a pitch that works

The Real Driver Nobody’s Talking About

The actual biggest driver of job losses in 2025? 293,753 planned layoffs from “DOGE Impact”—the Department of Government Efficiency initiatives and federal restructuring. Another 20,976 cuts came from downstream effects as federal funding dried up for private and non-profit entities.

In October alone, the federal gov…