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Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 people. Is that an AI story or a cost story? Bloomberg reported the offer on Monday, and Greg's line is that 60,000 is the number eligible, not the number who will take it: offered, not laid off…
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Operator-side research — with Lewis Ward, sixteen years an analyst at IDC — on what studios actually need, budget for, and buy.
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