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Fiverr Cuts 250 Jobs In Shift To “AI-First Company” Strategy

The gig-economy platform will cut 30% of its staff in the upcoming pivot, citing productivity gains from automation and a flatter structure.

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Fiverr is laying off 250 employees — around 30 percent of its workforce — as the gig-economy platform pivots to an AI-first company. CEO Micha Kaufman announced the move in an essay posted to X, describing it as a shift back toward a startup-style operation with fewer management layers.

Kaufman said the cuts reflect a new operating model: “An AI-first company that’s leaner, faster, with a modern AI-focused tech infrastructure, a smaller team, each with substantially greater productivity, and far fewer management layers,” he wrote. Fiverr has already deployed AI in customer support and fraud detection, reducing its need for headcount to maintain core services.

Hints that Fiverr might use AI to justify layoffs surfaced earlier this year. In a May interview with CBS News, Kaufman advised employees to “automate 100 percent” of their work with AI, while arguing they would still be needed for judgment calls and non-linear thinking. That advice has not shielded Fiverr’s own staff from redundancy.

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Fiverr’s announcement follows a wider pattern across the tech sector in 2025, with companies citing AI to rationalize job cuts. Duolingo declared its intention to become “AI-first” back in April, and Workday announced plans in February to cut 1,750 positions — far more than Fiverr but driven by the same pivot toward automation.

For affected employees, the outcome is familiar: fewer people left to shoulder more work. For Fiverr, the gamble is betting that automation will keep it competitive in a crowded gig-work market where platforms are racing to integrate artificial intelligence.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.

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