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Xbox division job cuts: Thousands at Microsoft brace for yet another round of layoffs
The latest round of layoffs at Microsoft’s Xbox division are part of the company’s broader strategy of organisation-wide restructuring.
By: Tech Desk
New Delhi | June 26, 2025 13:23 IST
This would be the company’s fourth round of layoffs in the past 18 months. Three major cuts in 2024 have already led to closure of several subsidiaries. Xbox reportedly has been under severe pressure from Microsoft executives to amp up its profit margins ever since it acquired Activision Blizzard in 2023 for $69 billion.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the company was planning to cut thousands of jobs especially in sales. This is seen as a part of its latest move to cut down its workforce as it pumps billions of dollars into AI development and infrastructure such as data centres. Microsoft is planning to enact these layoffs in early July after the end of its fiscal year. The job cuts may not solely impact sales teams, and its schedule may change.
When it comes to Microsoft’s gaming division, the company laid off 650 employees in September 2024. These job cuts were announced by Xbox chief Phil Spencer who, in an internal memo, stated that the development was owing to the post-acquisition team structure. These roles were mostly corporate and supporting functions.
This would be the second massive layoff. In May, the company had announced job cuts impacting over 6,000 people mostly from product and engineering positions. However, back then sales and marketing teams were spared. As of June 2024, the company had 228,000 workers out of which 45,000 in sales and marketing.
Overall, the tech industry has been reeling from mass layoffs. As of June 26, 2025 as many as 147 companies have laid off 63,443 employees as per layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks layoffs in real time.
This is the year Intel has laid off the most employees. In April, it was reported that the company had plans to cut nearly 20 per cent of its staff which amounts to about 22,000 positions. The company claimed that the layoffs were a part of its broader strategy to streamline management and rebuild an engineering-driven culture.
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17 June 2025
AI ‘Godfather’ warns workers should be ‘terrified’
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the “Godfather of AI,” delivered his starkest warning yet about artificial intelligence displacing human workers, telling a podcast audience Monday that “for mundane intellectual labour, AI is just going to replace everybody”. Speaking on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast, Hinton said workers in roles like paralegals and call centers should be “terrified” of mass joblessness as AI systems rapidly advance.
The 77-year-old researcher’s latest comments, published Tuesday, represent his most direct assessment of AI’s immediate threat to white-collar employment and build on months of increasingly urgent warnings about the technology he helped create.
‘AI is already smarter than us’: Geoffrey Hinton warns of job loss, digital immortality, and existential risk
The ‘Godfather of AI’ says jobs will vanish, and these workers should be ‘terrified’
Mass Job Displacement Already Underway
Hinton argued that unlike previous technological shifts, AI’s impact on intellectual work mirrors what machines did to physical labor during the Industrial Revolution. “You can’t really have a job digging ditches anymore, because a machine does it faster and more efficiently,” he said, drawing the parallel to cognitive tasks.
The AI pioneer dismissed arguments that new jobs will emerge to replace those lost to automation. “You’d have to be very skilled to have a job that it just couldn’t do,” Hinton told host Steven Bartlett. He noted that even when AI serves as an assistant rather than replacement, “one person will do what used to be the work of 10 people”.
Hinton suggested plumbers might remain safer from displacement, saying “it’s going to be a long time before it’s as good at physical manipulation”.
Existential Threat Within Decades
Beyond job losses, Hinton reiterated his belief that AI poses existential risks to humanity, estimating a “10 to 20% chance they’ll wipe us out”. He described two categories of AI dangers: misuse by bad actors and the possibility that superintelligent systems could “decide it doesn’t need humans”.
“We’ve never been in this situation before. We’ve never had to deal with something smarter than us,” Hinton said, calling the threat difficult to assess. “Anyone who claims they know exactly what will happen or how to deal with it is talking nonsense”.
Mounting Warnings From AI’s Pioneer
Hinton’s latest comments follow a series of public warnings throughout 2025, including a May interview with CBS News where he cautioned about unchecked AI development. His concerns have gained urgency as entry-level positions traditionally filled by recent graduates face automation.
“Mass displacement is more likely than not, and is already upon us in some ways,” Hinton said.
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