Microsoft cutting 60,000 workers to fund the machine that will replace the survivors.
Nothing signals confidence in your technology investment like offering 25% of your employees cash to leave.
▸ Ars Technica — Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforceAI promised less work; user reports he has never worked more — congratulations, you automated the easy part.
▸ Hacker News — AI promised less work. I've never worked moreRoblox scraped 145GB of adult content from a model repository without asking — somebody confused 'download dataset' with 'grab everything'.
▸ Hacker News — Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without askingMicrosoft offering buyouts to a quarter of its workforce while pouring billions into AI — the math is not subtle.