Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (30,000+ in 2025) Not About "AI", Just Business Failure
Hours ago in Spain's "MSM" (in English):
From the article: "In August, the workers affected by layoffs pointed to a primary cause: the replacement of humans by artificial intelligence."
Todd Green: “None of the layoffs were due to AI. I love talking about how we use it, but I want to be clear: the changes we made were not because of that.”
Earlier this year Microsoft laid off many Spanish developers [1, 2].
It nearly killed (wiped clean) "King". It barely survived. Some media narrative was something something "AI". But the chief disputes this phony narrative in a new interview.
Microsoft is a failing brand and its gaming ambitions have come to a halt. XBox is basically dying and today we see attempts to distract from it with more "AI" nonsense. To quote this new article: "Microsoft is going all-in on AI at the moment. Following the creation of Microsoft AI, the AI research laboratory division founded in 2024, the company has been trying to shoehorn artificial intelligence into every aspect of the company, including Xbox consoles. The results have been divisive, to say the least. Ninja Theory and Microsoft Research's "world and human interaction model", named Muse, didn't exactly go down well with gamers when it was revealed back in February, following Microsoft’s claims that it was capable of creating "consistent and diverse gameplay rendered by AI". Then, the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was met with further outrage, as gamers immediately noticed that several elements of the game’s artwork were clearly (and ultimately confirmed to be by Activision) AI-generated. All of this has been exacerbated by a string of layoffs at Xbox back in July, as many were immediately fearful of the 9,000 fired employees being replaced by AI-automated systems in the near future."
When companies say "AI" they typically just engage in AI-Washing’, a concept explained just a day ago:
"AI" is replacing... the old excuses for mass layoffs. █