This week: Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, including some executives. We discuss what's behind the offer, why buyout stories draw so much interest from readers, and how it fits with a blockbuster quarter that included $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy predicts that AWS and Amazon's stores business could each reach $1 trillion in annual revenue in the next five to 10 years, even as the cost of Amazon's AI buildout cuts into its profits.

Todd also tests Amazon's new Bee AI wearable, which listens to the first part of the show, summarizes the conversation and offers a critique of its own. John starts to come around on the device, with reservations about its shopping-related features.

Plus, our Halloween costumes, and a GeekWire Trivia Challenge about T-Mobile perks.

Related stories and links

• Microsoft makes new ‘voluntary exit’ offer to about a quarter of its workforce, including some execs
• Bigger than Bing or Xbox: Microsoft’s OpenAI haul reaches $10B in quarterly revenue
• Choosing their own moment: Why these longtime Microsofties are taking the buyout
• Andy Jassy’s prediction: Amazon could have two $1 trillion businesses within a decade
• AWS growth hits 39%, its fastest in nearly five years, as Amazon misses on earnings
• Amazon’s new AI devices can listen to conversations and suggest things to buy — if you opt in
• Amazon’s new Bee AI devices have a bystander problem, says former AWS security engineer
• T-Mobile’s new ‘T-Mix’ plans let customers trade phone deals for Netflix, ESPN and other perks

With Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton. Music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.