Capital de TokensMicrosoft lays off 5,000 employees while spending on AI: the uncomfortable truth
Watch on YouTube Microsoft is cutting its workforce for the second time in a year — up to 5,700 people in sales, consulting, and Xbox — while committing $100 billion to artificial intelligence. Is AI responsible? We analyze the data, the pattern repeated by Salesforce, Meta, and Amazon, and what this means for people who work in
Microsoft is cutting its workforce for the second time in a year — up to 5,700 people in sales, consulting, and Xbox — while committing $100 billion to artificial intelligence. Is AI responsible? We analyze the data, the pattern repeated by Salesforce, Meta, and Amazon, and what this means for people who work in technology.
The claim that AI creates more jobs than it destroys is colliding with reality: the roles being eliminated are exactly the ones language models can replace at a lower cost. And the skills gap no one talks about could be the most serious problem of the next employment cycle.
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