{"id":1001397,"date":"2026-04-06T07:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001397"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:39:17","slug":"gta-vi-maker-take-two-lays-off-entire-ai-team-months-after-ceo-promised-to-embrace-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/06\/gta-vi-maker-take-two-lays-off-entire-ai-team-months-after-ceo-promised-to-embrace-generative-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA VI maker Take-Two lays off entire AI team months after CEO promised to \u2019embrace generative AI\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising development, Take-Two Interactive \u2013 the gaming giant behind the highly anticipated blockbuster Grand Theft Auto VI \u2013 has ditched its entire AI division, laying off its head of AI and several team members. The move comes barely two months after CEO Strauss Zelnick publicly declared that the company was \u201cactively embracing generative AI.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The layoffs were revealed through LinkedIn posts by affected employees. <\/p>\n<p>Luke Dicken, who had served as Take-Two\u2019s Head of AI since January 2025, wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s truly disappointing that I have to share with you that my time with T2 \u2014 and that of my team \u2014 has come to an end.\u201d He added that he would appreciate help in finding new positions for his former colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising development, Take-Two Interactive \u2013 the gaming giant behind the highly anticipated blockbuster Grand Theft Auto VI \u2013 has ditched its entire AI division, laying off its head of AI and several team members. The move comes barely two months after CEO Strauss Zelnick publicly declared that the company was \u201cactively embracing generative AI.\u201d The layoffs were revealed through LinkedIn posts by affected employees. Luke Dicken, who had served as Take-Two\u2019s Head of AI since January 2025, wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s truly disappointing that I have to share with you that my time with T2 \u2014 and that of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}