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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Monday, July 6th.

I'm Imani Mouise for the Wall Street Journal.

The United Nations Chief is calling for autonomous weapons to be banned by international law.

UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez called drones that can select and attack targets on their own, killer robots, and said they were, quote, morally repugnant.

Gutierrez's comments speak to a growing debate over when military forces should use AI, when

human should intercede, and who should decide where to draw the lines.

The conversations about AI weapons comes as there's growing popular backlash in the U.S. and other

countries about the potential negative effects of the AI revolution,

including mass job replacement and electricity price increases.

Microsoft is cutting more than 3,000 jobs from its Xbox video games division.

The company also announced plans to sell or spin off four video game development studios

and is exploring strategic options for a fifth.

The video game industry has been pummeled by layoffs after companies expanded aggressively

in response to a surge in business during the pandemic that petered off when the world reopened.

Xbox revenue fell 5% in the quarter ending in March from a year earlier.

Its profit margin in the fiscal year that ended in June was 3%, a decline from the prior year. And SpaceX will officially join the

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