{"id":155198,"date":"2023-01-11T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/booming-ai-under-the-knife-tech-layoffs-slay-20-of-popular-startups-workforce"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:28:26","slug":"booming-ai-under-the-knife-tech-layoffs-slay-20-of-popular-startups-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/booming-ai-under-the-knife-tech-layoffs-slay-20-of-popular-startups-workforce","title":{"rendered":"Booming AI under the knife: Tech layoffs slay 20% of popular startup\u2019s workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/booming-ai-under-the-knife-tech-layoffs-slay-20-of-popular-startups-workforce2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recent announcement of Scale AI layoffs has served as a reminder that even the most promising startups and IT giants are not immune to the problems of the collapsing tech market as the artificial intelligence (AI) industry continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having a CEO heralded as \u201cthe next Zuckerberg\u201d and a $7 billion valuation, Scale AI announced the \u201chardest change\u201d \u2013 the layoff of 20 percent of its 700-person workforce on Monday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/scale.com\/blog\/company-update\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent announcement of Scale AI layoffs has served as a reminder that even the most promising startups and IT giants are not immune to the problems of the collapsing tech market as the artificial intelligence (AI) industry continues to grow. Despite having a CEO heralded as \u201cthe next Zuckerberg\u201d and a $7 billion valuation, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}