Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs

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    "title": "Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs - The Verge",
    "contact": "Dan Greenawalt",
    "excerpt": "It’s also time to name the next Elder Scrolls game, and Xbox’s architect of Forza Motorsport is leaving. It’s also time to name the next Elder Scrolls game, and Xbox’s architect of Forza Motorsport is leaving. To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign yet that AI is about to fundamentally change the size of Microsoft’s workforce. Microsoft is now offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. It’s the first time the company has presented such an offer to so many employees, expanding greatly upon the retirement offer that was limited to around 9,000 employees earlier this year. It’s all part of an ongoing effort to avoid reducing investment in AI infrastructure by lowering Microsoft’s operating costs and headcount. “Our total people costs will go down, our cost per head will go up, and my GPU per researcher will go up,” Nadella said on a podcast almost two years ago, responding to a question about AI’s impact on headcount. That’s a financial way of saying Microsoft will have fewer people, but it will offer higher salaries and more tools and AI power to those who remain. It also helps explain the continued layoffs we’ve seen at Microsoft over the past couple of years. Microsoft has been performing layoffs regularly over the past...",
    "summary": "Dan Greenawalt is retiring from Microsoft after nearly 27 years, stepping down as head of Turn 10 Studios.",
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