{"id":18771,"date":"2025-05-09T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/tone-deaf-us-tech-company-responsible-for-global-it-outage-to-cut-jobs-and-use-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:37:17","slug":"tone-deaf-us-tech-company-responsible-for-global-it-outage-to-cut-jobs-and-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/tone-deaf-us-tech-company-responsible-for-global-it-outage-to-cut-jobs-and-use-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tone deaf\u2019: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the business<\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to \u201cAI efficiency\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a note to staff earlier this week, released in stock market filings in the US, CrowdStrike\u2019s chief executive, George Kurtz, announced that 500 positions, or 5% of its workforce, would be cut globally, citing AI efficiencies created in the business.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/09\/crowdstrike-to-cut-jobs-and-use-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/66039334838193480af0983b762c74df167be850\/315_0_3566_2854\/master\/3566.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f56b86b35e579cb2489bd58f457fd89\" title=\"\u2018Tone deaf\u2019: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI\" \/>CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the business<br \/>\nThe cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to \u201cAI efficiency\u201d.<br \/>\nIn a note to staff earlier this week, released in stock market filings in the US, CrowdStrike\u2019s chief executive, George Kurtz, announced that 500 positions, or 5% of its workforce, would be cut globally, citing AI efficiencies created in the business. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the business The cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to \u201cAI efficiency\u201d. In a note to staff &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/tone-deaf-us-tech-company-responsible-for-global-it-outage-to-cut-jobs-and-use-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Tone deaf\u2019: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}