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Since eleven labs is now bringing their own AI receptionist, why would someone buy from you, and not directly to the source?

“The largest pool of senior federal employees without a supervisory classification was not in information technology. It was in law.
General attorneys accounted for 15,415 employees at General Schedule grades 14 and 15 who were recorded in the federal government's nonsupervisory category in July 2026. Information technology management followed with 9,710, and management and program analysis with 8,962.”

“Bangladesh has been racing to halt the outbreak’s spread since March, when more than 100 children died in less than a month. By Tuesday, the death toll from suspected measles cases reached 999 since the start of the year, according to the government’s Directorate General of Health Services.”

“Astronomers have taken one of the deepest looks yet at Cloud-9, a candidate "dark galaxy," and found no trace of stars. The paper outlining this discovery was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 21.”

I came across some interesting data on federal layoffs and severance pay in 2025.

There were 10,757 federal RIF (reduction-in-force) separation actions recorded in 2025. For comparison, the highest annual total in the previous decade was only 401.

What’s interesting is what we don’t know.
Federal public records show that about 8,937 of those actions had characteristics that could potentially qualify for severance — things like the type of appointment, regular work schedule, and at least a year of service.

But that does not mean 8,937 people received severance.

The public data don’t show things like whether someone was already eligible for retirement, whether they turned down a qualifying job offer, whether they had received severance before, or what the agency ultimately decided.

For someone who does qualify, federal severance can be worth up to 52 weeks of basic pay, depending on things like salary, age, and years of service.
So basically, we can see a huge number of federal layoffs in the data, and we can estimate how many might qualify for severance, but the government doesn’t publicly show the final number of people who actually received it.

I thought that was pretty interesting, especially given how large the 2025 workforce cuts were.

“The government's Federal Program Inventory lists 2,623 programs and a $7.7 trillion fiscal 2024 total. FederalHiringData rebuilt it as $4.747 trillion in assistance obligations, $1.133 trillion in interest outlays, $218 billion in refundable-credit outlays and $1.603 trillion in estimated tax revenue never collected.”

“Mathew Davis, who lives in a homeless shelter in Austin, Texas, would love an apartment of his own. But with the little money he makes donating blood plasma, even a $450-a-month tiny home with no running water and a communal bathroom would be a stretch.
Meanwhile, over 4,500 units the city classifies as affordable — nearly 16% — sit empty”

“FederalHiringData analyzed the monthly BLS payroll series back to 1939. Federal jobs represented 1.681% of total nonfarm payrolls in August 2026, the lowest share in the available monthly record. Federal payrolls were down 242,000 from a year earlier while total nonfarm employment was up 603,000.”

“The Department of Homeland Security reviewed more than 17,000 contracts and fully or partly ended 438 of them in 2025. DHS said the cuts could avoid more than $10.5 billion in current and future costs. GAO later found that $92.37 million, net, had actually been removed from those contracts.”

“Tesla published a form on Thursday for businesses interested in buying Cybercab fleets or providing infrastructure for its network, the latest sign that the company’s aspirations for its gold-hued autonomous vehicle stretch beyond being a robotaxi operator.”

“FederalHiringData counted 1,265,034 GS and GL employees in June 2026, a conservative floor for the zero-adjustment side.”