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Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings
Microsoft reported a $27 billion quarterly profit, after cutting thousands of jobs. The CFO is keeping up the pressure.
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Internal Microsoft pay guidelines reveal salary, hiring bonus, and stock award ranges by level
The data reveals salary ranges, equity, and bonuses for new hires, with a big carve-out for competitive cases, highlighting the battle for AI talent.
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Microsoft employees react to CEO's 'enigma of success' memo with a mixture of suspicion, anger, and speculation
Satya Nadella attempted to explain why Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs while earnings billions of dollars. Employees are responding.
Read Microsoft CEO's memo to staff explaining why the tech giant is laying off workers while making huge profits
Some employees have criticized the software giant for conducting layoffs while making billions of dollars in profit.
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Internal Microsoft memo details plans for major update to its flagship coding service, as AI-powered rivals gain ground
Competition has become intense in the market for AI coding services. Microsoft is working on an answer.
Amazon workers are piecing together cloud division layoffs in internal messages
Amazon confirmed layoffs in its cloud computing unit, AWS, and employees are trying to determine which teams were affected.
The list of major companies laying off staff this year including Intel, Scale AI, Morgan Stanley, and Meta
Layoffs have hit companies from Disney to Meta to Intel this year amid a backdrop of cost-cutting and technological change.
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Microsoft plans to replace many of the salespeople it laid off with more technical roles to compete with OpenAI, Google
The company's recent job cuts included thousands of salespeople, many of whom will be replaced by more technical roles to sell AI.
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Internal Microsoft memo lays out its new strategy for selling AI as the company cuts salespeople
Microsoft's Judson Althoff is revamping sales to become the "frontier AI firm," according to an internal memo.
Microsoft cuts deeper into its workforce with another major round of layoffs
Microsoft is making job cuts affecting less than 4% of its total workforce as it focuses on reducing layers with fewer managers.
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The gray area at the center of Microsoft's battle with OpenAI
Insiders say Microsoft's access to OpenAI's tech is central to ongoing talks because what OpenAI is required to share, and when, can be a gray area.
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Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'
Executive Julia Liuson recently told Microsoft managers to include internal AI tool usage when evaluating employee performance.
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Microsoft transfers a top cybersecurity executive out of the company's security group, internal memo shows
Igor Tsyganskiy is moving under Cloud + AI boss Scott Guthrie, another sign of how important artificial intelligence is becoming to Microsoft.
'Copilot' this, 'Copilot' that. A watchdog wants Microsoft to change its confusing AI advertising.
The Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division reviewed Microsoft's Copilot AI advertising. It was not amused.
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Oracle names two new presidents in possible succession play
Oracle has new presidents. One person said they are considered part of the cloud company's succession plan.
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Microsoft is prepping an AI Copilot for the Pentagon
Microsoft is preparing a version of its Copilot AI tool for the Pentagon as it nears a deal to add 1 million new users from a mystery customer.
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Microsoft is working on a deal to add 1 million Copilot users from a single customer, exec says in internal meeting
Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff told employees in a recent meeting that the software giant is working on this big transaction.
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Leaked Microsoft org chart shows the team Jay Parikh assembled to lead CoreAI, full of fellow ex-Meta execs
Parikh's team includes some of his former Meta colleagues, plus longtime Microsoft executives.
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Amazon cuts jobs in its Books business, internal email shows
Amazon got started by selling books online in the 1990s, and it has remained a large business for the e-commerce giant.
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What a top Microsoft exec learned from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, per an internal email
Microsoft's Jay Parikh is adopting some of Andy Jassy's strategies for his new AI organization, according to an internal email