Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers (~27% of staff); poster imagines a 2035 AI world
thedealdirector · x · 2026-10-27
Per Bloomberg, Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers (VP level and below on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK) — roughly 27% of its workforce — as it cuts costs amid AI adoption.
The poster riffs on this with a satirical 2035 vision: Anthropic dumping 8% after reporting "only" $1.3T quarterly revenue, Microsoft absorbed by OpenAI as a sales channel and leftover compute, and Grok Bot as a skull implant — exaggerating today's AI arms race to its logical extreme.
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