Academic: AI Layoffs and Workforce Impact

Academic: 28 AI milestones. Verified from company statements and primary sources.

AI milestones

• Jan 1, 2026: Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Open-Source AI Agent Goes Viral
• Feb 19, 2025: Figure AI Helix VLA Model for Humanoid Robots
• Mar 18, 2024: NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Architecture Announced
• Dec 12, 2023: Tesla Optimus Gen 2 Reveal
• Dec 10, 2015: ResNet (Residual Networks) — 152-Layer Deep Learning
• Oct 14, 2015: Tesla Autopilot Launched
• Jun 10, 2014: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Introduced
• Jun 1, 2014: Dropout Regularization Technique Published
• Sep 30, 2012: AlexNet Wins ILSVRC 2012 — Deep Learning Breakthrough
• Jun 26, 2009: Netflix Prize Won by BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos
• Oct 2, 2006: Netflix Prize — $1 Million Machine Learning Competition
• Jan 1, 1988: CMU Sphinx — First Continuous Speech Recognizer
• Jan 1, 1987: Second AI Winter Begins
• Jan 1, 1987: NETtalk — Neural Network Learns to Pronounce English
• Oct 9, 1986: Backpropagation Rediscovery (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams)