Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

Microsoft’s latest layoffs coincide with rising H‑1B filings, intensifying scrutiny of its AI‑driven workforce shift.

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would cut about 2.1 per cent of its global employees.

The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.