{"id":387938,"date":"2026-04-08T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:42:16","slug":"nearly-80000-tech-jobs-cut-in-q1-but-ais-full-impact-may-be-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387938\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 80,000 tech jobs cut in Q1, but AI&#8217;s full impact may be yet to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260407 AI jobs Lab\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Cognizant, one of the world&#8217;s largest IT service providers, has set up AI labs in San Francisco and Bengaluru to develop new tools for its outsourcing clients.\u00a0( Photo by Yifan Yu)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PALO ALTO, California &#8212; The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even\u00a0as the global tech industry cut nearly 80,000 jobs in the first three months of 2026, according to the chief AI officer at one of the world&#8217;s biggest outsourcing companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cognizant, one of the world&#8217;s largest IT service providers, has set up AI labs in San Francisco and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3915,172387,220,168056,218,219,5068,155800,9193,70638,61,26878,60,150,26389,44649,169275,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-387938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-3915","9":"tag-172387","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-ais","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-be","15":"tag-come","16":"tag-cut","17":"tag-full","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-impact","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-jobs","22":"tag-may","23":"tag-nearly","24":"tag-q1","25":"tag-tech","26":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}