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17 articles mention Microsoft in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
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| Hacker News: Front Page | Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforceHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://www.kuow.org/technology/2026-10-26/microsoft-offers-voluntary-buyouts-to-a-quarter-of-its-workforce Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250937 Points: 20 # Comments: 0 | 0.90● | |
| Fox Business | Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as tech giant reshapes its workforceFox Business Microsoft's voluntary buyout covers about 60,000 eligible employees, more than a quarter of its global workforce, across multiple countries. | 0.90● | |
| The Washington Times | Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees in AI pushThe Washington Times Microsoft on Monday offered voluntary buyouts to more than a quarter of its global workforce. | 0.90● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Microsoft Announces Type Server Protocol, Extension of Language Server ProtocolHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 | 0.90● | |
| CBS News | Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers as it invests more in AICBS News Roughly a quarter of Microsoft's workforce will be eligible for a "voluntary exit offer" as the company tries to shed workers. | 0.90● | |
| The Washington Times | Microsoft offers a quarter of its global workforce voluntary buyouts as AI spending acceleratesThe Washington Times Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence. | 0.90● | |
| CNBC | Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency pushCNBC Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency. | 0.90● | |
| UPI | Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to thousands of employeesUPI Microsoft announced Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to tens of thousands of its employees amid a surge in capital spending on AI. | 0.90● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforceHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quarter-of-its-workforce/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245524 Points: 389 # Comments: 348 | 0.90● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch ExplainedHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://shattered.io/microsoft-decision-1-qwen3-5-9b-model-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238620 Points: 31 # Comments: 11 | 0.70● | |
| CNBC | Earnings playbook: Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and more report this week. Here's what to expectCNBC The megacaps are some of the 160 S&P 500 companies expected to report at a critical time for tech and the market. | 0.60● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS OfficeHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://www.computerworld.dk/art/297226/digitaliseringsministeriet-har-i-al-stilhed-droppet-stort-anlagt-forsoeg-med-open-source-alternativ-til-microsoft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223844 Points: 129 # Comments: 76 | 0.80● | |
| Fox Business | Microsoft says its AI tool outperforms generalist doctors in complex diagnosesFox Business Microsoft's new orchestrator AI diagnoses complex medical cases by simulating a panel of clinical experts, outperforming general physicians in accuracy. | 0.90● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you boughtHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-games-you-already-bought/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194009 Points: 214 # Comments: 206 | 0.50● | |
| Semafor | Microsoft’s Nadella is back in businessSemafor “We, as an industry, have to wake up to this,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Semafor about the AI race. “It’s not about the shiny object and FOMO.” | 0.90● | |
| CNBC | OpenAI to bring AI models to Google's cloud, in further expansion beyond MicrosoftCNBC OpenAI will now have its models on all three of the top clouds, giving corporate developers more choice. | 0.50● | |
| The Daily Caller | Microsoft Says Frontier AI ‘Cannot Be Trusted,’ And It Just So Happens To Sell The BabysitterThe Daily Caller ‘frontier models, regardless of their origin, cannot be trusted’ | 0.70● |
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| CNBC | 0.9% | 3 | 329 |
| Hacker News: Front Page | 3.7% | 6 | 164 |
| Semafor | 0.6% | 1 | 170 |
| UPI | 0.6% | 1 | 163 |
| CBS News | 0.2% | 1 | 497 |
| The Washington Times | 0.5% | 2 | 386 |
| Fox Business | 3.1% | 2 | 64 |
| The Daily Caller | 0.6% | 1 | 177 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased3 of 8 sources
- 0.6%
- Right-leaning4 of 15 sources
- 0.3%
Lean index +1.4: covered about evenly across the spectrum
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
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