Microsoft is cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce as the company shifts more resources toward the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

On the company’s earnings call with analysts, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked about navigating a potential recession.

When Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s third-ever CEO in 2014, his predecessor Steve Ballmer gave him some helpful advice.

I think if you sort of buy into the argument that software is the most malleable resource we have to fight any type of inflationary pressure or any type of growth pressure wher

The amount of code being written by AI at Microsoft is increasing steadily, the chief executive said during a conversation with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

The move follows a smaller round of performance-based layoffs in January and marks a shift from the aggressive hiring of the pandemic years.

At Meta’s LlamaCon conference, Satya Nadella shared whether AI is better at writing Python or C++ and asked Mark Zuckerberg how much Meta code is written by artificial intelligence.

At the recent LlamaCon conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse into how deeply AI has become woven into the fabric of modern software development.

Microsoft, which is cutting 3% of its headcount, had 228,000 employees as of last June. The maker of Windows and Word is aiming to reduce management layers. Microsoft on Tuesday said that it's laying off 3% of employees across all levels, teams and geographies, affecting about 6,000 people.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at OpenAI DevDay on Nov. 6, 2023 as Sam Altman looks on. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The news: OpenAI and