{"id":9117,"date":"2026-03-20T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:44:31","slug":"crypto-com-layoffs-today-ceo-joins-list-of-bosses-blaming-ai-for-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9117","title":{"rendered":"Crypto.com layoffs today: CEO joins list of bosses blaming AI for job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>The CEO of Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, announced on Thursday that he was laying off 12% of the company\u2019s staff. Marszalek cited AI as the driving factor behind the layoffs. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-s-happened\">What\u2019s happened?<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek took to X to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kris\/status\/2034539285232398798\">announce<\/a> that the company was cutting 12% of its staff. Marszalek cited AI as the reason for the layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In the X post, Marszalek said that Crypto.com was \u201cjoining the list of companies integrating enterprise-wide AI\u201d and suggested that those who do not embrace artificial intelligence won\u2019t be around for long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies that do not make this pivot immediately will fail,\u201d Marszalek wrote. \u201cCompanies that move slowly will be left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>Marszalek said that, as a result of this embrace of AI, Crypto.com would lay off around 12% of its workforce in \u201croles that do not adapt in our new world,\u201d noting that the layoffs would be \u201ctargeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marszalek is hardly the first CEO to blame AI for layoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Block CEO Jack Dorsey said he would lay off 4,000 employees, primarily due to a shift toward greater reliance on AI. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91512893\/crypto-com-layoffs-today-ceo-joins-list-bosses-blaming-ai-job-cuts\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, announced on Thursday that he was laying off 12% of the company\u2019s staff. Marszalek cited AI as the driving factor behind the layoffs. Here\u2019s what you need to know. What\u2019s happened? On Thursday, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek took to X to announce that the company was cutting 12% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}