Microsoft is cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce as the company shifts more resources toward the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

The layoffs, which will affect almost 2,000 workers in Washington state, are meant in part to strip away layers of management and create more nimble teams.

More than 6,000 Voles to go Software King of the World, Microsoft is sharpening the axe again, swinging for three per cent of its global workforce to strip out middle managers and trim its flabby international operations.

On the company’s earnings call with analysts, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked about navigating a potential recession.

I think if you sort of buy into the argument that software is the most malleable resource we have to fight any type of inflationary pressure or any type of growth pressure wher

At the recent LlamaCon conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse into how deeply AI has become woven into the fabric of modern software development.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s endorsement of Google DeepMind‘s A2A open protocol and Anthropic's MCP is huge sign the industry is moving to an open garden.

Microsoft, which is cutting 3% of its headcount, had 228,000 employees as of last June. The maker of Windows and Word is aiming to reduce management layers. Microsoft on Tuesday said that it's laying off 3% of employees across all levels, teams and geographies, affecting about 6,000 people.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories is "written by software," meaning AI.

Those AI tools have been pitched as changing the way people work, including in Microsoft's own workplaces. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at an AI event last month at Meta's headquarters that "maybe 20-30% of the code" for some ...