MICROSOFT JUST MADE IT OFFICIAL. 4,800 JOBS GONE, AND XBOX TAKES THE BIGGEST GAMING LAYOFF EVER ANNOUNCED.
Here is everything going on today.
The cuts: 4,800 people, 2.1% of the company. Xbox absorbs 3,200 of them, with 1,600 walked out on day one. That breaks the record for a gaming layoff, 1,900, which Microsoft also set in 2024. The rest lands on sales and consulting.
The Xbox CEO: Asha Sharma took over in February when Phil Spencer retired. She came from Instacart and Meta with zero game industry experience. Her own words to staff: "Our business today is not healthy." The division lost "64 cents for every dollar we invested." Her fix: "We must reset Xbox." Four studios are leaving Microsoft. Double Fine and Compulsion go independent while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs move to new owners. Arkane Lyon sits in a "strategic review."
None of this came out of nowhere. Watch the sequence:
Last year Microsoft cut roughly 15,000 jobs across two rounds.
In April it launched the first buyout program in company history, the "Rule of 70," offering about 9,000 older US workers packages to leave. A third took them.
In May, LinkedIn, which Microsoft owns outright, cut 875 jobs in a quarter where revenue grew 12%.
Through all of it, Microsoft has ranked as the 6th largest H-1B filer in America since 2020.
Now follow the money. Microsoft spent over $100 billion on AI infrastructure in the fiscal year that just ended. Four days before these layoffs, it announced a $2.5 billion unit that embeds 6,000 AI engineers inside customer companies. It cut 4,800 employees the same week it funded 6,000 AI engineers.
And CEO Satya Nadella, paid $96.5 million last year, has not said a word. The announcement came from the head of HR, who told employees "AI is changing how work gets done" and that everyday tasks "can now be automated."
The market is not buying the story. Microsoft just closed its worst month since 2000, down about 20%, more than $570 billion in value erased.
@Eng_china5 Lol Even if memory-array math is fast on paper, real end-to-end performance depends on buffering, dataflow, and how well the rest of the pipeline keeps up.
The democrats have distinguished themselves so much in the last two and a half years that they are trotting out the same people For the same job that they couldn't do before
@OversightDems@dems
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Imagine how wealthy the US would be , if american students for the past twenty or thirty years would have gone into engineering, information technology , cyber security , we wouldn't be importing all these people to do those jobs , which pay a lot of money. just saying
The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.
US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.
But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's
Yesterday I had a post that went viral about Haitians here on TPS getting mortgages.
As you can see here, there are special programs for H-1B visa holders with no US credit.
Why can't Americans get the same benefits as foreigners.
Have you had enough yet?
THE CRACKDOWN IS ON PAPER.
H-1B RENEWALS AT ALL TIME HIGHS.
@Newsweek just cited our work: 273k H-1B continuing employment approvals in nine months of FY2026. NONE of these subject to any caps.
More eyes on this every week.
In Russian-occupied Sevastopol, Crimea, in Ukraine gasoline prices have reached 290 Rubles per liter, which is 3.30 Euro per liter or 14.30 USD per gallon.
It will only get worse for the Russian occupation.
🇺🇦 F-16s Reportedly Destroy Four Russian Helicopters in Low-Level Strike on Taganrog Air Base
Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets reportedly carried out a daring low-altitude strike on a Russian helicopter base near Taganrog in the Rostov region.
Flying below radar coverage, the aircraft allegedly hit helicopters parked on the airfield, destroying at least four, including Ka-52 attack helicopters.
The base, reportedly used to support Russian operations against Ukraine, was left engulfed in flames as multiple secondary explosions were reported across the site.
If confirmed, the raid would mark one of the deepest reported manned airstrikes inside Russian territory involving Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets.
👇 Do you think Russia will be forced to move more of its aircraft farther from the front line?
No Scandinavia is not democrat socialist. And not an mass immigration safe haven. Anything else?
@SenSanders@NYCMayor@DemSocialists
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