Microsoft’s New Security Chief Replaces Top Execs to Force an AI Overhaul

Microsoft ’s cybersecurity business is developing more artificial intelligence (AI) security products, cutting back on some of its more traditional security products, and consolidating engineering teams, which has led to several hundred layoffs, The Information reported Wednesday (July 15), citing unnamed sources. The company is making these changes to better respond to customer demand for solutions to the threat of AI-powered hacks, and to capture some of the spending that is going to AI firms