Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's plans.

The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hinting about "making hard choices" last month. Sources suggest the cuts could even involve a studio closure, or changes to the Xbox studio lineup. In a recent Giant Bomb episode, rumors of 1,000 layoffs for Microsoft's Xbox division were mentioned. Bloomberg also reported today that the cuts would be "major," and involve budget cuts for marketing and other areas of Microsoft's Xbox business.

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The delayed Fable reboot is coming to Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC on February 23.

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

A Los Angeles-based startup has raised $5 million to fund an in-orbit computing demonstration next year, ahead of plans to deploy more than 100,000 orbital data centers to meet surging demand for AI infrastructure.

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La France va créer ou étendre neuf réserves biologiques forestières sur son territoire, dont la plus importante est située en Guyane, portant au total sur une surface supplémentaire de 157.000 hectares de forêt protégée, a annoncé le ministère de la Transition écologique.

Le Continent blanc n'a été découvert qu'au début du XIXe siècle. Des hommes n'explorent donc l'Antarctique que depuis deux siècles et ses nombreux secrets ne sont pas encore percés. Mais les moyens de détection modernes nous aident dans ce but, comme le montre une découverte récente qui a des...

The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball have both revealed this week that Microsoft is reevaluating plans for its next-generation Project Helix console and exploring "radically different" console business models in the meantime.

"We are working very hard to rethink everything that we can about Helix, which is a console we are committed to shipping, and we are very cognizant of the ways in which we need to change as a company to make sure it is affordable, to make sure that it's flexible," said Ball in an interview with The Game Business …

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Celebrated Left-wing economist Thomas Piketty has unveiled a mad new plan to impose a global 90% income tax and 20% wealth tax to 'save the planet'. It proves global quasi-communism was always the real goal, says Ben Pile.

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Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.