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Microsoft is quietly reshaping its workforce, offering voluntary buyouts to roughly sixty thousand employees who score below seventy on its internal performance metric. The move comes as the company pours billions into artificial intelligence infrastructure — a clear signal that the skills Microsoft needs tomorrow look very different from the ones it hired for yesterday.
Staying in the tech labor story, Intel's next chapter is already being written inside Windows eleven. A new toggle called Advanced Performance Extensions has appeared in an Insider build, promising a boost for compatible chips — chips that don't actually exist yet. It's a rare glimpse of hardware and software being developed in lockstep, with Microsoft laying the groundwork before the silicon arrives.
And in crypto, Bitcoin slipped below eighty thousand dollars, falling roughly zero point four percent to around seventy-nine thousand seven hundred, even as Asian tech stocks rallied. The broader decentralized finance index fell nearly two percent, and with the Federal Reserve opening a two-day meeting, traders appear to be sitting on their hands rather than making bold moves.
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