Microsoft invited 60 thousand employees to leave voluntarily due to the development of artificial intelligence, -. CNBC In July, Microsoft laid off 4,800 employees. The year before - 9.1 thousand. At the same time, Microsoft is actively increasing spending on expanding data centers (data processing centers). The company leases them to Anthropic, OpenAI and many others. The investments have not yet yielded results. In the first half of the year, free cash flow fell by 23% to $19.64 billion. Microsoft's AI revenue exceeds $37 billion. Telegram | maximum | strain | .