Satya Nadella
As Microsoft turns 50, Nadella sees future success built on ability to ‘win the new’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images A half-century ago, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft from a strip mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Five decades and almost $3 trillion later, the […]
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Google quantum exec says tech is ‘5 years out from a real breakout’
A handout picture from October 2019 shows Sundar Pichai with one of Google’s Quantum Computers in the Santa Barbara lab, California, U.S. Picture taken in October 2019. Google/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. Handout . | Reuters One of Google’s top executives working on quantum computers said he believe […]
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Microsoft announces new HR executive, company veteran Amy Coleman
Microsoft’s Amy Coleman (L) and Kathleen Hogan (R). Source: Microsoft Microsoft said Wednesday that company veteran Amy Coleman will become its new executive vice president chief people officer, succeeding Kathleen Hogan, who has held the position for the past decade. Hogan will remain an executive vice president but move to a newly established Office of […]
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DeepSeek shocked the AI world this week. Here’s how tech CEOs responded
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented on its “real innovations.” OpenAI’s Sam Altman described it as “clearly a great model.” Apple CEO Tim Cook said “innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing.” And Palantir’s Alex Karp said it shows the importance of “an all-country effort.” The tech CEOs were all talking about China’s DeepSeek, which […]
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Sam Altman touts OpenAI-Microsoft alliance, says next phase will be ‘better than anyone is ready for’
Former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Hayden Field | CNBC OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on Tuesday that the relationship between his company and Microsoft is going strong. Altman posted a picture with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on X, and […]
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Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. Microsoft declined to comment. TikTok and ByteDance did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for a comment outside regular […]
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Power stocks plunge as energy needs called into question because of new China AI lab
The cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 2024. Danielle DeVries | CNBC Power companies that are most exposed to the tech sector’s data center boom plunged early Monday, as the debut of China’s DeepSeek open-source AI laboratory led investors to question how much energy artificial intelligence […]
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From Musk to Nadella: Trump’s $500 billion AI project stirs drama among the biggest names in tech
L-R: Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce, and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Reuters Some of the biggest names in technology have clashed after President Donald Trump unveiled his $500 billion private AI investment project. Earlier this week, Trump announced a joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank to invest billions […]
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Microsoft’s business development chief Chris Young resigns
Christopher Young, executive vice president of business development at Microsoft Corp., speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. The GeekWire Summit brings together business, tech and community leaders for discussions about the future. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft‘s head of business development Chris Young, who […]
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Microsoft loses status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House while SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman look on on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is expected to announce investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty […]
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