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Monday.com joins the list of tech companies citing AI as a reason for layoffs — 20 more examples

Monday.com announced layoffs of about 20% of its workforce, or over 600 employees, citing a restructuring tied to its AI-driven growth strategy. This adds to a growing trend where major tech companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, and Amazon have cited AI as a factor in job cuts, with nearly 140,000 U.S. tech jobs cut this year. However, AI-focused companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are hiring rapidly, and some firms are shifting headcount into AI roles.

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Microsoft

Oracle

GitLab

Google/DeepMind

Intuit

Beyond Standard LLMs: Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers

The article by Sebastian Raschka explores alternatives to standard autoregressive transformer LLMs, including linear attention hybrids (e.g., MiniMax-M1, Qwen3-Next, DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi Linear), text diffusion models, code world models, and small recursive transformers. It discusses the revival of linear attention mechanisms and challenges, such as MiniMax reverting to standard attention in its M2 model due to poor performance on reasoning tasks.

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MiniMax

Alibaba/Qwen

DeepSeek

Google/DeepMind

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