Microsoft has laid off around 9K employees in the latest round of cuts, affecting 4% of the company’s total workforce. According to The Seattle Times, this is all part of the company’s mandate to trim and make room for increased spending in AI infrastructure. The report says it’s not quite like one game developer from Halo Studios reckoned last week when they said Microsoft was doing its damnedest to replace personnel with AI agents. However, Microsoft is indeed cutting costs as much as possible to accommodate its planned expenditures of over $80 billion in this area, a $25 billion increase […]
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