Microsoft Offers Buyouts To 60,000, A Quarter Of Its Workforce
By Jillg366
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to more than a quarter of its staff, some 60,000 people, as it looks to defray the cost of AI and data center spending. The buyouts will be offered to staffers at the vice president level or below in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K. The Xbox, Windows, Copilot […]
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Computer systems that perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognising images or making decisions.
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