📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: Atlassian Lays Off 10 Percent of Its Workforce as It Pi

Another tech giant is culling immense numbers of workers.

On Thursday, prominent Australian software firm Atlassian announced it was laying off ten percent of its workforce, or about 1,600 employees. 

Like a growing number of its peers, it wasn’t shy about sharing why: a pivot to AI.

The company, which makes most of its money by selling collaboration software, said it will “rebalance” its resources to focus on the “future of teamwork in the AI era,” Reuters reported.

40 percent of the firings, or about 600 employees, will come from its workforce in North America. Another 30 percent will come from Australia and 16 percent in India, Atlassian said.

The company, however, refused to characterize the firings as a sign of AI replacement.

“Our ​approach is not ‘AI replaces people,’” CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said in a ​memo to employees. “But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It does.” 

The layoffs come amid significant market anxiety over how AI agents and other tools could affect major software companies. The jittery atmosphere reached a fever pitch in a near-trillion dollar stock sell off last month, spurred by the release of Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork agent, which the company said could automate some white collar tasks, including legal work. The anxiety on Wall Street spiraled so dramatically that key AI figures intervened to quell the fears, including Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, who called the idea that AI could replace software “illogical.”

The Atlassian cuts also mirror layoffs happening at other tech companies. Late last month, Twitter founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his fintech company was firing 4,000 employees, or forty percent of its global workforce. Dorsey said that AI had “fundamentally” changed “what it means to build and run a company,” and that it was creating a “new way of working” with smaller teams. Ahead of the cuts, employees complained of mandates from leadership to use AI as much as possible.

Some analysts enthused about tech firms’ recent pivot to AI.

“Software companies such as Atlassian have an opportunity to make their business more efficient by adopting AI ​tools, especially within their product development,” DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria told Reuters.

Professionals Australia, the union representing Atlassian workers, seemed to consider the sudden nature of the layoffs insulting, noting that employees weren’t consulted or warned about a potential restructuring.

“These are experienced professionals who have helped build one of Australia’s most successful technology companies from the ground up,” Paul Inglis, a director at Professionals Australia, told The Guardian. “They deserve respect, transparency and proper consultation when major decisions about their livelihoods and their future careers are made.”

While AI has been attributed to layoffs across multiple industries, many experts argue that the tech’s over-hyped capabilities are being used to gloss over other reasons for the cuts, such as overhiring during the pandemic, poor management, or a broader economic downturn.

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📌 TOPINDIATOURS Breaking ai: Trump Supporters Getting Scammed by AI-Generated Foot

For an Instagram page only a few months old, Jessica Foster is thriving. The model has over a million followers on the social media platform, and a blossoming OnlyFans presence boasting 13,000 likes across 25 posts.

A purported US military service member, Foster is young, blonde, and gorgeous. She’s appeared in images with the influencer Darren “IShowSpeed” Jason Watkins Jr., Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and even Donald and Melania Trump. By all accounts, she’s a nationalistic online fever dream — and that’s before we mention her risqué foot pics.

There’s just one wrinkle: she’s 100 percent AI, a basic fact seemingly lost on a vast proportion of her followers.

The account’s bizarre rise, first chronicled by Fast Company, began in December of 2025. Through a barrage of timely spam — she claimed to attend the Super Bowl shortly after invading Greenland — the puppet master running the Instagram page has amassed a major following of dupes and patriots eager to see their politics embodied in a sexy young woman.

“Jessica, what beautiful little feet!” one dedicated fan commented under a thirst-trap featuring the model’s bare dogs.

Fosters’ persona, it should be mentioned, is pretty well executed. Each image is crisp and, with the exception of a few implausible Oval Office gatherings, realistic. (Yes, even her toes — we’re not in 2023 anymore.)

There’s also a matter of social media context. Though anyone scrolling through the entire Instagram account should be able to clock it as AI slop, a one-off post appearing amongst the typical user feed would be much harder to sniff out.

The massive Instagram presence seems to serve as a funnel to the Jessica Foster OnlyFans account, where anyone can sign up to see the model shed her BDUs.

“Public servant by day, troublemaker by night,” her OnlyFans bio suggests. “I’m new to this don’t be rude please. Btw I respond to every message but be patient since I’m not a robot haha.”

That said, the OnlyFans account only requires a free registration, as opposed to a subscription fee, so it’s tough to see what financial purpose the account serves.

It does, however, make a great yardstick for measuring AI’s abilities. Gone are the days of mangled fingers or disgusting Will Smith spaghetti videos. When deployed skillfully, AI is now capable of duping over a million people into clicking their dignity goodbye.

As right-wing commentator Ara Rubyan told FastCo: “The most dangerous thing about Jessica Foster isn’t that she’s fake; it’s how badly a million people needed her to be real.”

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