Microsoft president Brad Smith acknowledged that the four rounds of layoffs this year are more about using the money saved to fund AI data centers and GPUs than workers being replaced by AI.

I think this is important for the media to get right versus making it seem like ChatGPT can replace a human worker.

@carnage4life We know they overhired from 2020-2022 and previous rounds of layoffs were partly about correcting that.

So wouldn't be too surprised if this is also finishing the job on excess headcount (ew) in addition to reallocating the budget