Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs in Latest AI-Era Layoff Round
Microsoft cut about 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1% of its workforce, hitting Xbox and commercial sales hardest, the latest tech layoffs to intensify fears about AI and work.
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Microsoft cut about 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1% of its workforce, hitting Xbox and commercial sales hardest, the latest tech layoffs to intensify fears about AI and work.
Nvidia's Kyber rack for its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped more than a year to 2028 over a hard-to-manufacture circuit board, SemiAnalysis says, with no proven fallback.
Meta quietly released Pocket, an app that lets people build small interactive games from text prompts and share them in a TikTok-style feed, built on its Gizmo acquisition.
Big Tech's AI capital spending is projected to reach about 3.2% of US GDP by 2027, overtaking national defense spending as a share of the economy for the first time.
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