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Insider Claims Microsoft Saved Half a Billion Dollars by Automating Low-Level Jobs
A Microsoft executive has made a bold, if dubious, claim: that the company has already saved hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Microsoft Cuts 15,000 Jobs Amid AI Pivot, Tells Employees: ‘Invest in Your Own AI Skilling’
Microsoft has laid off over 15,000 employees across multiple divisions in 2025 and is now urging its remaining workforce to ...
AI optimism pushes Microsoft above $500/share — will it be next to join the $4 trillion club?
“We believe Microsoft will also hit the $4 trillion market cap club this summer and then over the next 18 months the focus ...
Internal Microsoft memo lays out its new strategy for selling AI as the company cuts salespeople
Microsoft's Judson Althoff is revamping sales to become the "frontier AI firm," according to an internal memo.
Microsoft layoffs: Tech giant's sales head Judson Althoff asked to go on two-month leave. Here's why
Tech giant Microsoft has asked its sales head Judson Althoff to go on a two-month sabbatical amid layoffs. The company ...
Microsoft highlights AI gains as layoffs spark job security concerns
Microsoft says AI helped it save $500 mn, even as it slashed 15,000 jobs; Layoffs spark concerns but firm says AI is meant to ...
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Microsoft plans to replace many of the salespeople it laid off with more technical roles to compete with OpenAI, Google
The company's recent job cuts included thousands of salespeople, many of whom will be replaced by more technical roles to ...