{"id":629408,"date":"2026-04-25T06:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:02:14","slug":"how-meta-microsoft-ai-job-cuts-explain-the-worlds-hottest-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629408\/","title":{"rendered":"How Meta, Microsoft AI job cuts explain the world\u2019s hottest trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella told The Australian Financial Review that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/microsoft-plans-record-25b-australia-investment-in-ai-push-20260422-p5zpzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employment upheaval from artificial intelligence was inevitable<\/a>. On Thursday night, Nadella\u2019s own workers got a taste of exactly what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in its 51-year history, Microsoft will offer American staff voluntary redundancies as it seeks to trim headcount, cut costs and increase efficiency amid the tech giant\u2019s whopping bet on AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella told The Australian Financial Review that employment upheaval from artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-629408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}