{"id":252251,"date":"2026-01-26T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252251\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:11:07","slug":"maya-developer-autodesk-continues-to-fire-people-to-invest-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252251\/","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":252252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[84069,365,363,364,4858,59,111,43,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-252251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-3ds-max","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-layoffs","tag-maya","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}