Microsoft and Xbox invited game developers to a roundtable on AI tools for game development while laying off thousands of developers.
Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees across the entire company yesterday, with an unknown number of those cuts impacting the Xbox and gaming division. Part of these cuts are reportedly directly related to Microsoft’s push into AI, and some of those impacted by the cuts are speaking out about how Microsoft is doing its « damndest » to replace people with AI as fast as it can.
You might think, then, that at least for a day, possibly even a few days, Microsoft would post-pone any more pushing of its AI technology into the faces of developers, publicly or privately.
