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AI: JOB CUTS AT MICROSOFT, CHRIS RIEGEL.#SCALAREPORT: CHRIS RIEGEL CEO, SCALA.COM @STRATACACHE.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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AI: JOB CUTS AT MICROSOFT, CHRIS RIEGEL.#SCALAREPORT: CHRIS RIEGEL CEO, SCALA.COM @STRATACACHE
APRIL 1959.

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Chris Wrigal to C.O.Schola.com, a global

0:08.7

technology firm, our business on all the major continents, artificial intelligence, AI, or artificial

0:16.1

generative intelligence, AGI. These terms translate into, are you going to keep or lose your job to a robot?

0:26.2

That is a question that sounds like the Jetsons might have answered,

0:31.7

we're going to lose our jobs, but we'll have a car that falls out of a suitcase

0:35.3

or some offset of the famous cartoon of the future from

0:39.0

the 20th century. Well, we're in the future. And I have this for Chris Regal to comment on.

0:46.8

Barron's, right now, Microsoft plans thousands of job cuts. How AI is reshaping the labor market, subhead.

0:57.5

Microsoft will cut thousands of jobs in its sales department and other teams from July.

1:02.5

The Wall Street Journal reported, here's how AI is contributing to mass layoffs, mass.

1:09.2

Chris, a very good evening to you.

1:12.3

Microsoft is AI.

1:14.7

That is chat GPT.

1:16.2

They're in an argument right now about open AI,

1:20.3

whether it's going to remain a study group

1:23.2

or turn into a billion dollardollar company in the markets.

1:28.9

But without Microsoft, none of this happens because it was their money,

1:33.2

it was their investment in a number of firms, not just open AI.

1:38.0

And now they're going to cut jobs.

1:40.4

Is that what was always coming?

1:43.3

Is that Microsoft's plan?

1:45.1

Or is this what you'd have to say, a surprise to them, too,

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