INTUIT FIRES 17 PERCENT OF ITS WORKFORCE AND IMMEDIATELY ANNOUNCES OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC DEALS Intuit, the company behind TurboTax and QuickBooks, announced this week that it is eliminating approximately 3,000 jobs, representing 17 percent of its total workforce. The company is shutting down offices in Reno and Woodland Hills. Employees in the United States stay on the payroll through July 31 and receive 16 weeks of severance plus additional weeks for tenure. In the same announcement, Intuit revealed it has signed multi-year deals with both Anthropic and OpenAI to embed their models throughout its product lineup. CEO Sasan Goodarzi said in a memo that the layoffs had “nothing to do with AI” and were instead about simplifying management layers and eliminating coordination-heavy roles. The timing of those two announcements arriving together is worth noting. The roles being eliminated skew heavily toward management, operational coordination, and support functions. The roles being created skew toward AI integration, product development, and data science. This is the pattern playing out across every major software company in 2026: headcount goes down, AI contracts go up, the stock price usually rises, and the CEO insists the two things are unrelated. What Intuit is building, with Anthropic and OpenAI embedded throughout, will require a fraction of the human labor that built the company over the past three decades. Keywords: Intuit layoffs 2026, Intuit AI, TurboTax OpenAI, QuickBooks Anthropic