Meta and Microsoft Cut 20,000 Jobs in One Week, Stoking AI Labor Crisis Fears
Meta and Microsoft announced roughly 20,000 job cuts in a single week—and new data shows AI and automation now account for nearly half of all tech-sector layoffs.
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Meta and Microsoft announced roughly 20,000 job cuts in a single week—and new data shows AI and automation now account for nearly half of all tech-sector layoffs.
Mozilla's MZLA Technologies launched Thunderbolt, an open-source self-hosted enterprise AI client at $15/user/month — half the cost of Microsoft Copilot 365 — built for organizations that cannot send internal data to external clouds.
Stellantis has signed a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to co-develop more than 100 AI initiatives — a deal that also moves the automaker toward cloud consolidation and company-wide AI tooling.
DeepL is entering real-time voice translation, putting the accuracy-first service in direct competition with Google and Microsoft in the spoken-language AI space.
Microsoft released three in-house AI models — speech transcription, voice generation, and image creation — reducing its dependence on OpenAI-provided capabilities for its core product stack.
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a restricted consortium giving Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Google limited access to Claude Mythos — the AI model it is withholding from the public.
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, uniting AWS, Apple, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks under the Linux Foundation to defend software supply chains against AI-powered attacks.