As Microsoft pours billions into artificial intelligence, the company has offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The work force was already on edge.
The companyโs free cash flow stayed positive in the last quarter even as it spent $45.2 billion on capital expenses like data centers and offered to pay workers to leave.
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The Redmond, Wash., campus of Microsoft, which reported $36.6 billion in profit for its latest quarter.
About a quarter of the tech giantโs employees were eligible for the packages, although the company cautioned it did not expect many employees to sign on.
President Trumpโs meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as โsuper intelligence,โ the term that Mr. Trump prefers.
ยฉ Doug Mills/The New York Times
President Trump unveiled an A.I.-powered government website at the White House on Tuesday,
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