Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.

Microsoft began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of lay-offs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence (AI) spending.

While it is unclear how this affects Austin, Microsoft is slashing 4% of its global workforce. The company has roughly a thousand employees in the