The announcement follows Anthropic’s debut of its leading-edge Mythos model, which the company says has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities.

The voluntary program could affect nearly 9,000 workers as the company trims headcount, revamps pay, and redirects resources toward its massive AI infrastructure buildout.

Meta said it's cutting 10% of its workforce, just as Microsoft announced that it's offering employee buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history.

Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) are down roughly 4% in Thursday afternoon trading, sliding to $415 from a prior close of $432.92. It’s the software giant’s worst session since early February,

Following the recent wave of tech layoffs, the company is giving some employees the option to take a voluntary buyout.

Microsoft and Anthropic are pushing AI tools like Copilot and Claude beyond passive assistance toward autonomous, context-aware agents that can act on user goals across applications. New features such as Claude Dispatch, Claude Projects, and Copilot’s ...

The company is also changing how it awards bonuses and stock options as it reorganizes its workforce around AI efforts.

Microsoft is planning its first voluntary employee buyout in the Windows maker’s 51-year history, CNBC reported Thursday, citing a memo. Like other US tech giants, Microsoft has been spending aggressively on artificial intelligence.

Microsoft is offering about 7% of its US workforce the option to retire early, the latest attempt by a major tech firm to downsize while ramping up artificial intelligence investments.

The market has spent much of the year rewarding caution and punishing complacency. After a long stretch where mega-cap tech felt untouchable, volatility has crept back in — driven by shifting interest-rate expectations,

Microsoft has rolled out new 'agentic' capabilities for its Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, enabling the AI to take multi-step, in-app actions rather than only suggest edits. The update, now generally available to multiple Microsoft 365 ...