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‘Mustafa, Shame On You,’ Addressing Microsoft AI CEO Was One of Two Employees Later Fired After Protesting
Two Microsoft employees who protested the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft-powered AI were fired this week by the tech ...
Microsoft says it’s ‘slowing or pausing’ some AI data center projects, including $1B plan for Ohio
Microsoft says it's “slowing or pausing” some data center construction, including a $1 billion project in Ohio.
Microsoft AI boss confirms development of "off-frontier" AI models, but they'll be 3 or 6 months behind OpenAI: "Our strategy is to really play a very tight second"
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says the company is building AI models that will be "three or six months behind" OpenAI, ...
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Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes
AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail Analysis Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has extolled the ...
Microsoft AI chief Suleyman sees advantage in building models ‘3 or 6 months behind'
Training the top models in the world is very expensive and can duplicate previous work, said Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of ...
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Microsoft's AI CEO wants to create Copilot companions that we'll all have relationships with
Microsoft is aiming to develop Copilot AI companions that will develop 'lasting, meaningful relationships' with Windows users ...
Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
Microsoft has fired one of the employees who disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event. In an email seen by The Verge, ...
Microsoft considers developing AI models to better control Copilot features
Microsoft may be looking to develop its own AI models to reduce its reliance on OpenAI and gain greater control over the AI ...
Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military
In Aboussad's case, Microsoft made direct reference to her protest. Microsoft wrote via internal communication that the company took issue with the public nature of her protest, claiming that Aboussad ...
Microsoft terminates jobs of engineers who protested use of AI products by Israel's military
At Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration, two engineers interrupted events to protest the use of the company’s artificial ...
Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users
Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new product line as integral to daily life as the software giant’s past ...
Microsoft Fires 2 Engineers Who Protested Tech Company’s Israeli Military AI Contracts
Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal spoke out at Friday's 50th anniversary celebration at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, ...