{"id":220002,"date":"2026-03-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/microsoft-racks-up-over-500-million-in-ai-savings-while-slashing-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:30:57","slug":"microsoft-racks-up-over-500-million-in-ai-savings-while-slashing-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/microsoft-racks-up-over-500-million-in-ai-savings-while-slashing-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft racks up over $500 million in AI savings while slashing jobs, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com\">Microsoft racks up over $500 million in AI savings while slashing jobs, Bloomberg News reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 20:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -Microsoft saved more than $500 million in its call centers alone last year by using artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant last week announced plans to lay off nearly 4% of its workforce as it looks to rein in costs amid hefty investments in AI infrastructure. In May, the company had announced layoffs affecting around 6,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>AI tools were helping improve productivity in segments from sales and customer service to software engineering and the company has begun using AI to handle interactions with smaller customers, Microsoft&#8217;s Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff said during a presentation this week, according to the Bloomberg News report.<\/p>\n<p>The nascent effort was already generating tens of millions of dollars, the report said, citing a person familiar with his comments.<\/p>\n<p>AI generated 35% of the code for new products, accelerating launch times, Althoff said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows maker has earmarked $80 billion in capital spending this fiscal year, with most of it aimed at expanding data centers to ease capacity bottlenecks for artificial-intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p>Big tech companies have been spending heavily on AI as they view the new technology as a major growth engine, while slashing costs elsewhere to safeguard profits.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Pooja Desai)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/microsoft-racks-over-500-million-184531943.html?utm_sourceu003dchatgpt.com\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft racks up over $500 million in AI savings while slashing jobs, Bloomberg News reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/aol_reuters_29\/d080179639fc7bcdfa6828c2a1f7d739","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220004,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220002\/revisions\/220004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}