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Microsoft offers buyouts to more than 25% of staff

People attend a showcase event of the company's artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot, ahead of the annual Build developer conference at Microsoft headquarters, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Redmond, Washington. (Lindsey Wasson/AP)
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People attend a showcase event of the company's artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot, ahead of the annual Build developer conference at Microsoft headquarters, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Redmond, Washington. (Lindsey Wasson/AP)

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to more than 25% of it’s workforce amid huge expenditures in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Host Claudia Grisales gets more of the story from Roben Farzad, host of Full Disclosure.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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