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Microsoft has officially shut down its office in Pakistan and laid off five employees, marking a significant development in the country's tech sector.

Major tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, Google, and Amazon are continuing to lay off thousands of employees in 2025. Factors like economic challenges, AI-driven restructuring, and changing business priorities are driving widespread job cuts.

Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest investor. In 2023, Microsoft reportedly made an additional multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment in attempts to build safe AGI (artificial general intelligence)

The traditional 9-to-5 workday is fading, replaced by a 24/7 cycle of digital connection. Employees are logging in before sunrise and after 10 PM, blurring the lines between work and personal life.

Microsoft is reportedly planning another round of layoffs nearing the end of its fiscal year 2025, potentially impacting thousands of employees, particularly in sales.

The cuts, impacting offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, and other locations, follow Microsoft's broader restructuring and increased AI integration.

Former Microsoft employees, including Vaniya Agrawal, disrupted Microsoft Build 2025, protesting Microsoft's cloud contracts with Israeli government. These disruptions mark the third consecutive day of pro-Palestine demonstrations at the conference.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Elon Musk launched xAI's Grok 3 models on Azure. Nadella reminisced about Musk's early days as a Microsoft intern working with DOS and creating video games.

Microsoft's new AI-powered coding assistant under GitHub can independently write, debug, and update code. It handles low to medium complexity tasks, freeing developers for more creative projects, and requires human approval for deployment.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted that DeepSeek's R1 AI model caught him off guard with its performance comparable to OpenAI's ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost.