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- Microsoft Offers Voluntary Exit to About 60,000 Employees
Microsoft confirmed a voluntary exit offer for eligible employees in the US, Canada, the UK, and India, with multiple reports estimating that about 60,000 people, or roughly 27% of its workforce, qualify. The program provides financial support and career-planning resources, while eligibility and participation vary by department. Microsoft has not officially said that AI infrastructure spending directly caused the workforce adjustment.
iThome 台湾 · 🔥 5 - AI-Assisted Game Decompilation Is Disrupting Retro Preservation
AI coding tools are accelerating the decompilation, recompilation and porting of retro games, enabling projects such as Halo in a web browser and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on iPhone, according to The Verge. The surge has divided preservation communities: a community-focused website that tracks decompilation projects and provides resources shut down amid disruption from AI-driven work, including hostile forks. Preservationists also warn that AI may obscure how original games were built, while Epic Games has launched a vibe-coded PC storefront and Xbox has created Xbox Labs to explore decompilation; the division has so far shown only an experimental dashboard.
The Verge AI · 🔥 0 - Xbox strategy manager says the company uses AI, shows three-hour game sample
Brandon Stirrup, who works on business strategy at Xbox, said publicly that Xbox is using AI and showed a simple game sample he built over a weekend, saying he had never made a video game before and put in about three hours of active work. He said he used Unreal Engine and MCP, and posted a screen recording of an agent repeatedly testing, observing results and adjusting. The report describes the demo as a personal experiment that cannot by itself prove the cost or final quality of a full commercial game, and says it reflects Stirrup's own position rather than a Microsoft AI development policy; he also argued that some studio managers avoid discussing AI publicly because players are broadly negative toward it, while automating repetitive tasks draws less opposition than replacing writers or artists.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - AI revives shut-down games, raising copyright and upkeep questions
Since around September, Bilibili creators have posted AI-assisted revivals of discontinued games such as Shuang Sheng Shi Jie, Huan Shu Qi Shi Lu and Yue Qian Lv Ren, with some builds downloadable and playable; overseas projects similarly target Halo, GTA: Vice City and Call of Duty: Black Ops zombies. A Game Grape feature republished by Huxiu AI says many projects reuse existing client assets and AI decompilation, but "runnable" and "playable" are not the same as a finished product. It also notes that on Oct. 14 Microsoft announced a team, referred to in the article as Xbox Labs, to explore game decompilation, cross-platform play and player co-creation, while warning that original art, music and story remain copyrighted after a game shuts down.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Xbox forms Xbox Labs to explore AI game remixes, ports and browser play
Microsoft's Xbox announced a new Xbox Labs team that will use small-scale R&D and prototyping to explore cross-platform compatibility, browser play, and AI-assisted game remixing and porting. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced the group internally and CTO Scott Van Vliet will lead it, with members drawn from game producers, engineers and scientists. Microsoft said Xbox Labs consolidates existing work including an Apple Silicon compatibility layer, browser game publishing and mod-community support, with no imminent products or clear timeline, while Wccftech reported the effort will lean heavily on AI and quoted Sharma saying the experiments could challenge Xbox's own business models.
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