Microsoft wants workers to embrace AI while Xbox burns

Microsoft is encouraging workers to embrace AI and prepare for the future, but a newly surfaced Xbox memo tells a very different story. The company admits Xbox revenue declined despite more than $20 billion in spending, acknowledges hardware challenges, and says the gaming division needs a reset. The timing raises questions as Microsoft continues discussing AI-driven productivity while reports of…

Microsoft publishes lengthy AI jobs manifesto but fails to promise no mass layoffs

Microsoft has published a lengthy essay about AI, jobs, and the future of work, with vice chair Brad Smith acknowledging growing anxiety among students and workers. While the company talks extensively about human dignity, creativity, and the importance of workers, it notably fails to promise there will be no AI-driven mass layoffs as Microsoft continues investing heavily in artificial…

FanDuel lays off several hundred employees amid sports betting industry shifts

As New York City prepared for Game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals on Monday, FanDuel pulled out all the stops with a massive promotional event in Times Square. Along with a musical performance, fans donning Knicks gear received free subway rides courtesy of the sportsbook, among other giveaways and prizes. It also included appearances from Knicks…

Cal Academy Utilizes A.I. after Laying Off 50 Employees

The California Academy of Sciences announced layoffs of 53 employees in late April as part of an effort to close a projected budget deficit exceeding $8 million. Some workers have continued to work, but on June 30, the layoffs will fully take effect, eliminating the 173-year-old San Francisco institution’s ability to produce its own planetarium shows or create graphics for its public floor.

Jeff Pearlman: Sports Illustrated has become ‘an empty vessel for selling sh*t to idiots’

On Friday, several of Sports Illustrated’s best and brightest writers, or what remains of them, announced they’d been laid off. Jeff Pearlman, who made his bones as a journalist for SI when it was one of the world’s most prominent sports magazines, had his heart broken all over again. Among those who said on social…

Paramount Is Trying To Blame Netflix For All The Negative Merger Press

More than 4,000 Hollywood insiders recently signed a letter blasting Paramount’s planned $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers, noting that the massive consolidation will be very harmful to labor, consumers, and creatives. As we saw with the AT&T Warner deal, history generally supports this; these debt-riddled deals are broadly, uniformly harmful. Companies that take on […]

Microsoft Thins the Ranks of Experienced American Workers with Early Retirement Plan

Microsoft has announced a voluntary buyout program for longtime employees in the United States, impacting thousands of older and more experienced workers as the company hopes to trim its payroll without conducting a layoff.

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Meta’s obsession with AI: employees’ actions will be tracked to train models

Technology giant Meta, which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, will begin tracking the actions of its employees, including how they use the keyboard and how they use the computer mouse, writes the BBC. The company told its employees on the 21st of April that the new tool will run on Meta’s computers and internal […]

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Paramount Offers Generous Severance to Warner Bros Employees Facing Merger Layoffs – Up to 2 Years Pay

The Paramount Warner Bros. merger is all but a done deal now, and Warner Bros. employees are bracing themselves for layoffs. But according to That Park Place, Paramount will make any layoffs as painless as possible for affected staff. That Park Place has learned from an anonymous source that employees laid off within two years […]

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The number of layoffs is increasing in Lithuania

Technological changes are transforming the labor market, and in the first three months of 2026 the number of people laid off in Lithuania tripled, and there have also been more cases of mass layoffs. About a third of the job cuts have occurred in the metalworking sector, and demand for workers has also decreased in […]

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1,000+ Hollywood Insiders Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Bros Merger

More than 1,000 top Hollywood professionals ranging from Glenn Close to Denis Villeneuve have signed off on a new letter opposing the merger between Larry Ellison’s Paramount/CBS and Warner Brothers, warning that the massive $111 billion deal will result in unprecedented layoffs at a time when Hollywood, and American consumers, are already reeling from layoffs […]

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