Xbox Invites Developers To AI Roundtable The Same Day It Does Mass Layoffs

Yesterday was awful for people who work at Microsoft and the gaming industry in general. Thousands at the company either saw colleagues laid off or were laid off themselves, while outside observers watched as more game developers and projects were put on the chopping block. Microsoft’s $80 billion bet on AI was reportedly part of the rationale for the cuts. So it was a particularly bad time to be excitedly inviting people to an upcoming roundtable on how AI can make game development more efficient. – Ethan Gach Read More