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Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs; Xbox to spin off studios

Microsoft announced cuts of around 4,800 roles (about 2.1% of its global workforce) on July 6, 2026, with Xbox and commercial sales among the hardest hit. Xbox will lose 1,600 employees immediately and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma indicated roughly 3,200 cuts are expected through fiscal 2027 as part of a broad restructuring that flattens management layers and narrows strategic focus to core pillars such as Minecraft and Candy Crush. Microsoft highlighted that some work can be automated by AI but said the roles eliminated are "not being replaced by AI." The company recently launched a Frontier Company business unit backed by a $2.5 billion commitment to deliver enterprise AI deployments. As part of the gaming reshuffle, Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to independence, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will move to new ownership; Helen Chiang was promoted to chief operating officer for Xbox.

Cognizant and Domyn Partner to Deliver Sovereign AI in EMEA

Cognizant and Domyn announced a strategic partnership to deliver sovereign AI solutions to regulated enterprises across the EMEA region. Domyn will supply chip-to-application sovereign AI infrastructure — including deployable LLMs, compute, governance and agents — that can run on-premise or in private cloud environments. Cognizant will provide application integration, adapt and train Domyn’s models into smaller domain-specific models (SLMs), build agents and industry-specific applications, and manage data pipelines and model alignment. The companies will pursue a joint go-to-market across UK & Ireland, DACH, Northern and Southern Europe and the Middle East. The deal targets organisations with strict data-sovereignty and regulatory requirements and aligns with Cognizant’s AI Builder strategy and Domyn’s mission to enable trusted, governed intelligence for regulated industries.

OpenAI Expands Daybreak Cybersecurity Platform

OpenAI announced a major expansion of Daybreak to accelerate vulnerability discovery and automated patching. Key launches include an updated Codex Security plugin for large-scale scanning, the full release of GPT‑5.5‑Cyber to verified defenders, the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, and the Patch the Planet initiative (founded with Trail of Bits) to help open-source projects move from findings to fixes. OpenAI says Codex Security has scanned over 30 million commits across more than 30,000 codebases and that human reviewers and automated systems have marked hundreds of thousands of findings fixed. GPT‑5.5‑Cyber achieves new benchmark results on CyberGym, ExploitGym, and SEC-bench Pro. The program includes trusted-access controls and partnerships with security vendors, research groups, and several national governments and EU institutions to enable responsible defensive use and coordinated disclosures.