Microsoft’s Microsoft News and MSN organizations are laying off dozens of editorial workers and journalists. Microsoft emphasizes the need to rely on artificial intelligence to pick content and news that’s published on MSN.com, in the company’s various Microsoft news apps and inside Microsoft’s Edge browser, which resulted in the before mentioned layoffs.
Many of the workers laid off are part of Microsoft’s SANE(search, ads, News, Edge) division.
A Microsoft spokesperson gave a statement saying that the layoffs are not a result of the current pandemic. Upon regular evaluation of the business, the company increases investment in some places and redeployment where required.
While Microsoft’s layoff isn’t related to the pandemic, many businesses in the media industries are struck.
US noticed 50 jobs getting affected, while around 27 are being let go in the UK after Microsoft’s decision.
Microsoft had been in the news business since the launch of MSN back in 1995. Almost two years ago, Microsoft launched Microsoft News with “more than 800 editors working from around the world.”
Microsoft has gradually been shifting towards AI and is also encouraging its journalists and publishers to use AI, too.
How Microsoft Uses AI?
Microsoft uses AI to look for content, process it, filter it, search for photos that go with the news piece. Earlier Microsoft used human editors to do all this but is gradually shifting towards relying on AI to curate top stories from various sources for Microsoft Edge, Microsoft News, and MSN.
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