Microsoft's last round of extreme layoffs left about 9,000 workers suddenly without a job and stunned, especially since they say disaster could have been avoided if the Xbox owner just reduced its AI investments instead.
Tom Warren at The Verge reports that, according to sources familiar with the matter, Microsoft executives "had the choice" to either crater its workforce once again or minimize its spending on AI tech for the next fiscal year – and it apparently sided with the machines.
