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Microsoft is continuing a major leadership shakeup by creating a new combined team for its commercial and consumer Copilot products, under a new executive. The company is also moving Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to a superintelligence team focused on building frontier AI models. Loading audio narration… The reorganization underscores…
Microsoft is squarely in Anthropic’s corner.In a legal filing on Tuesday, Microsoft warned that the Pentagon’s effective blacklisting of Anthropic has “negative ramifications for the entire technology sector and American business community.””This is not the time to put at risk the very AI ecosystem that the Administration has helped to…
Microsoft’s security boss, Charlie Bell, is moving to a new role as an individual contributor, and the company hired Google executive Hayete Gallot to replace him, according to an internal memo from CEO Satya Nadella.Gallot is a former Microsoft executive who joined Google in 2024 as president of customer experience…
A “mirage.”That’s how Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman described Moltbook, a Reddit-style forum built entirely for bots.In a LinkedIn post on Monday, Suleyman said MoltBook is a powerful demonstration of how convincingly artificial intelligence can mimic human behavior — but warned that realism should not be confused with consciousness.”As funny…
Wall Street had very different reactions to two of Big Tech’s biggest spenders after quarterly earnings reports came out on Wednesday.Both Meta and Microsoft reported higher-than-expected capex. While both companies beat revenue expectations, Microsoft’s stock sank more than 6% after-hours, while Meta’s stock jumped as high as 9%.Big Tech’s spending…
After Microsoft reported results on Wednesday, CFO Amy Hood sent an internal memo to employees calling attention to recent developments in AI chips and coding tools, and deals with OpenAI and Anthropic.Hood sends these emails every quarter when Microsoft discloses its financials. Her missives mostly rehash what the company reports…
