AI & Jobs Big Tech's AI Capex Just Re-Sized Up to $725B for 2026 While the Layoff Tracker Hit 95,878 and 275,000 AI Job Postings Sat Open — The Skills Chasm Is Now the Headline
The Mag-4 finished Q1 earnings and the 2026 AI-capex number revised up from a $650B Q1 guide to $725B — a 77% jump on 2025. In the same window, layoff trackers crossed 95,878 workers across 249 events at 864 a day, while ~275,000 AI-skill job postings sat unfilled. Big Tech is funding the build-out by cutting the workers it does not need, and the workers it does need are not the same people.