AI Fear & Greed Index

> Track the emotional sentiment of artificial intelligence news and community opinion. Get insights into market psychology and AI development trends.

> Signals Behind the Index

30-day trend, topic mix, story drivers, company mentions, and workforce impact signals.

Latest data: 2026-10-13

30-Day Sentiment Path

2026-09-14 to 2026-10-13

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AI Workforce Impact Tracker

Events are labeled by evidence strength, not assumed causality.

Watchlist
107,027
Known roles affected
34
Tracked events
55,236
2025 known roles
40,170
2026 known roles
Company totals since 2023
Amazon
2 events · latest 2026-01-28
30,000
Microsoft
2 events · latest 2026-04-23
15,000
Accenture
1 events · latest 2025-09-26
11,000
Meta
3 events · latest 2026-04-23
9,600
IBM
1 events · latest 2023-05-02
7,800
HP
1 events · latest 2025-11-25
6,000
Dow
1 events · latest 2026-01-29
4,500
2025-2026 source-backed timeline
Covalen / Meta contractor · 720 roles at risk
Covalen told Dublin staff that 720 roles were at risk, including more than 500 AI annotation jobs on Meta projects, as Meta reduced reliance on third-party vendors while deploying more advanced AI systems.
2026-04-27
Microsoft · voluntary retirement offered to about 8,750 U.S. employees
Microsoft offered voluntary retirement packages while ramping AI spending and reporting AI completion of a material share of coding work; accepted exits were not yet known.
2026-04-23
Meta · about 8,000 employees
Meta planned to cut about 10% of staff in an efficiency push amid rising AI infrastructure costs.
2026-04-23
Snap · about 1,000 employees
Snap cut 16% of its workforce and said rapid AI advances enabled teams to reduce repetitive work and increase velocity.
2026-04-15
Atlassian · about 1,600 employees
Atlassian cut 10% of staff, saying the move would free resources for AI and enterprise sales.
2026-03-12
Ocado · about 1,000 employees
Ocado cut about 1,000 jobs after completing major robotics and digital systems and citing AI productivity gains in software engineering.
2026-02-26
Block · more than 4,000 employees
Block said smaller teams using AI could automate more work and cut more than 4,000 employees.
2026-02-26
Dow · about 4,500 jobs
Dow said it would cut about 4,500 jobs while shifting emphasis toward artificial intelligence and automation.
2026-01-29
Amazon · 16,000 corporate jobs
Amazon confirmed 16,000 additional corporate cuts as it pushed AI and efficiency, bringing the October-January total near 30,000.
2026-01-28
Pinterest · roughly 700 employees
Pinterest planned to cut less than 15% of staff while reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and AI-powered products.
2026-01-27

Topic Breakdown

Latest articles grouped by dominant signal.

Models & Agents84 / 18
Chips & Infrastructure100 / 2
Products & Apps100 / 1

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The Verge🤑 Greed

Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

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Wired🤑 Greed

‘The Sixty-Year Mission’ Brings the Legacy of ‘Star Trek’ to a New Generation

The documentary chronicles how Star Trek’s positions on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time.

Wired🤑 Greed

I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground

A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.

Towards Data Science🤑 Greed

We Specified an AI Agent in 2016. We Called It Analytics.

Re-reading my own IBM patent on real-time concert feedback as what it actually was: an agentic loop with multimodal perception, memory-grounded inference, and a human in the loop. What it got right, a

Towards Data Science🤑 Greed

I Built a Trap for AI Image Judges. They Walked Into a Different One.

Three vision AI models ignored the pretty image, yet GPT-4o invented answers and Claude kept answering B. The post I Built a Trap for AI Image Judges. They Walked Into a Different One. appeared first

Towards Data Science🤑 Greed

A Practical Guide to OpenAI's New Decisions API

Is this the JEV killer? The post A Practical Guide to OpenAI's New Decisions API appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Towards Data Science🤑 Greed

Agentic Systems: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns

Beyond basic ReAct loops: six production-oriented architectures for building autonomous, reliable, and scalable LLM agents. The post Agentic Systems: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural

The Verge🤑 Greed

I tried out Apple’s HomeView smart display

Apple has just announced the HomeView, its first smart home display - and I just got hands-on with the device, which features a gorgeous 7-inch square touchscreen and built-in Siri AI. It's designed a

The Verge🤑 Greed

Actress Mia Goth says it’s ‘incomprehensible’ that Instagram allowed an AI image of her to spread

Mia Goth at The 32nd Annual Actor Awards. | Variety via Getty Images Earlier this month, news broke that actress Mia Goth had filed for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. An Instagram po

The Verge🤑 Greed

Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon

After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer. Goog

The Verge🤑 Greed

Here are all the new HomePod Mini 2 colors

Apple's HomePod Mini 2 is here, and we've gotten a close-up look at the second-gen smart speaker. The HomePod Mini 2 comes with an upgraded S10 chip capable of powering Siri AI, though Apple says sup

The Verge🤑 Greed

Epic shifts to ‘AI-accelerated development’ for upcoming Disney game

Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, which is now delayed from its original March release window, according to a report from Bloomberg. The project's dev

MIT Technology Review😰 Fear

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? An

MIT Technology Review😰 Fear

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last

MIT Technology Review🤑 Greed

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm

Ars Technica🤑 Greed

Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model

"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.

Ars Technica🤑 Greed

Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.

Wired🤑 Greed

Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

Wired🤑 Greed

The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies

Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.

Wired😰 Fear

I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine

My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.”

Wired🤑 Greed

Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.