{"id":264491,"date":"2026-01-26T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:22:07","slug":"maya-developer-autodesk-continues-to-fire-people-to-invest-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264491\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Developer Autodesk Continues to Fire People to Invest in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/news\/012226-employee-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his version<\/a> of the typical &#8220;it was a very difficult decision for us&#8221; statement announcing the terminations, Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost said the company would reduce its workforce by roughly 7% \u2013 slightly below 2025&#8217;s 9%, but still totaling around 1,000 workers. He added that customer-facing sales teams would be hit the hardest, giving us hope that core software development departments may have weathered this storm unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>As for the reasons behind the firings, they follow a familiar theme of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, being virtually identical to those outlined a year ago: optimization of Autodesk&#8217;s go-to-market model, strengthening the company&#8217;s corporate functions, and last \u2013 and certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/autodesk-upsets-3d-artists-by-introducing-an-ai-for-generating-3d-models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">most annoying of all<\/a> \u2013 increasing investment in AI and cloud initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his version of the typical &#8220;it was a very difficult decision for us&#8221; statement announcing the terminations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[130380,220,218,219,61,60,2948,33397,43,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-264491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-3ds-max","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-layoffs","15":"tag-maya","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}