Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees to cut costs amid AI spending

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Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, representing more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology company seeks to contain costs and fund its expanding investments in artificial intelligence (AI).