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Hosted by Moonshot Consulting · business · EN-US · 44 episodes
AI is rewriting hiring faster than HR can keep up. Moonshot Minute is short, sharp intelligence on recruiting tech, employment data, and the human cost the headlines skip. For recruiters, founders, and anyone watching AI reshape work. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Hosted by L. David Oliver, founder of Moonshot Consulting. Full breakdowns on Substack: bit.ly/moonshotsubstackNo fluff. Just signal.
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Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk on September 30. 500,000 workers. 190 countries. The machines have finished learning. This is the quiet cut. Episode 32 of Moonshot Minute. AI, work, and the people caught in between.
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The Labor Department admitted it does not have the data on how AI is changing jobs. So it asked OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon to help count the cuts. The NSA wants access to "all" AI models. The benchmark for what qualifies will remain classified. Tech layoffs in 2026 have crossed 127,000. Already more than all of 2025. The government is asking the cutters to become the statisticians. ️ Spotify – Moonshot Minute YouTube – @MoonshotConsultingDC TikTok – @moonshotconsultingdc #MoonshotMinute #FridayRant #AILayoffs #NSA #LaborDepartment #TheUncounted
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Starbucks cut 224 jobs. Apple trimmed 200. A lawsuit exposed the black box that screens people out without them ever knowing. The job market looks stable. The squeeze is happening underneath. This episode of the Moonshot Minute breaks down the relocation squeeze, the product pivot, and the Eightfold AI lawsuit that could change how every company screens candidates. ️ Spotify – Moonshot Minute YouTube – @MoonshotConsultingDC TikTok – @moonshotconsultingdc #MoonshotMinute #Starbucks #Apple #EightfoldAI #AILayoffs #TheUncounted
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July's jobs report sent a signal. The economy lost 23,000 jobs. Unemployment ticked down to 4.1 percent. May and June were revised down by a combined 103,000. The soft landing is looking more like a soft underbelly. Etsy cut 12 percent of its workforce while announcing a $2 billion buyback. Rapid7 cut 12 percent while lowering revenue guidance. TikTok closed its Nashville office. Cloudflare cut 20 percent while posting record revenue. The pattern is consistent. Revenue up. Spending on AI up. Headcount flat or declining. AI-driven restructuring has become the polite corporate synonym for "we over-hired, margins need protecting, and we want the stock narrative to stay future-facing." July JOLTS: September 1. August jobs report: September 4. Those two prints decide if July was a blip or the trend. ️ Spotify – Moonshot Minute YouTube – @MoonshotConsultingDC TikTok – @moonshotconsultingdc Instagram – @go.moonshot Twitter/X – @gomoonshot Bluesky – @gomoonshot.bsky.social
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Twenty-six Meta employees are suing, claiming internal AI systems selected them for layoffs because they took medical leave, parental leave, or disability accommodation. One scientist got her notice while on prenatal leave. Her water broke the next day. She gave birth the day after. A designer with a newborn was the only person on her team on parental leave, and she was cut. A manager was demoted five days after returning from medical leave. The tools have names. Metamate. Second-brain agents. Checkpoint. The math is simple. Leave produces no activity. No activity scores as underperformance. The flatline reads as failure. Meta says people made these decisions, not AI. Reporting says many managers were surprised by the lists. A hearing is set for August 24. ️ Spotify – Moonshot Minute YouTube – @MoonshotConsultingDC TikTok – @moonshotconsultingdc Instagram – @go.moonshot Twitter/X – @gomoonshot Bluesky – @gomoonshot.bsky.social #MoonshotMinute #Meta #AILayoffs #FlatlineScore #TheUncounted #LaborRights
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