Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
Microsoft's inaugural voluntary buyouts will be open to workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more.

Microsoft's inaugural voluntary buyouts will be open to workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more.
Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, about 8,000 employees, as the company continues to ramp up investments in artificial intelligence.
Intel has been a Wall Street darling of late even as the business has yet to find much momentum.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks following a meeting in the White House with top U.S. officials, President Donald Trump said.
Nike announced 1,400 layoffs, primarily in its technology department, on Thursday after cutting 775 jobs in January.
Chief Operating Officer Gerald Beeson saying in a memo that targeting Griffin showed "ignorance and disdain" toward contributors to the city's economy.
Trump's remarks came as most Americans say they have cut spending due to high gas prices, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic survey.
Tehran's hardline rhetoric belies a brutal reality facing the regime and Iranian citizens: its economy, vulnerable even before the war, is now in tatters.
Texas Instruments beat on earnings and revenue and gave upbeat guidance.
Oil prices are rising again as tensions escalate in the U.S.-Iran conflict.
Regeneron is the latest in a string of major drugmakers to make pricing concessions for new and existing medicines under agreements with Trump.
The Department of Justice said it will immediately move FDA-approved marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act.
Spirit Airlines confirmed it is in talks with the Trump administration for a rescue package.
The model is better at coding, using computers and pursuing deeper research capabilities, OpenAI says.
We're raising our price target on the industrial conglomerate, which makes everything from gas pumps to data center components.
The U.S. government has previously accused China of targeting American AI technology and intellectual property.
Shares of ServiceNow sank over 16%, dragging down other software names like Salesforce, Workday and Oracle with it.
Trump's post shows the U.S. ratcheting up tensions with Iran over the strait, which has been largely choked off to oil tanker traffic since the war began.
Congress passed the Jeffrey Epstein files law in November after then-Attorney General Pam Bondi reneged on a promise to release the DOJ's investigatory file.
"We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history," Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, told CNBC on Thursday.
New grads are finding jobs faster despite a competitive job market, especially in these fields, according to a report from ZipRecruiter.
Starbucks made some major changes to its long-standing loyalty program last month.
President Donald Trump's overall — and economic — approval ratings plunged in the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.
Trump administration to reclassify marijuana as Schedule III, easing research barriers but not legalizing the drug or changing current federal penalties.