Satya Nadella
The rise of OpenAI and Microsoft’s $13 billion bet on the AI startup
OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, was founded in 2015 by a number of researchers, academics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Elon Musk. Altman and Brockman are still at OpenAI, serving as CEO and president, respectively. Musk departed in 2018. At the time, OpenAI said Musk left to avoid a conflict […]
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Microsoft fires back at Delta after massive outage, says airline declined ‘repeated’ offers for help
Delta Airlines planes are seen parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on June 19, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. Kent Nishimura | Getty Images Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday after the carrier said it would seek damages from the software giant and CrowdStrike for thousands of flight cancellations in the wake of a […]
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Microsoft’s cloud is ‘no-brainer’ for some AI startups, helping Azure gain ground on AWS
EzDubs founders Amrutavarsh Kinagi (left), Kareem Nassar and Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy pose for a photo in Palo Alto, California, in August 2023. EzDubs, a developer of language-translation technology, got started the way many tech startups get off the ground. It launched on public clouds from Amazon and Google. However, after EzDubs went through the Y Combinator […]
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Microsoft set to report earnings after the bell
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after U.S. market close on Tuesday. Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are looking for: Earnings per share: $2.93 Revenue: $64.39 billion Microsoft […]
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Microsoft reaches settlement in California about claims it punished workforce for taking secured time off
A brand sits illuminated at the Microsoft booth in the Cellular Earth Congress 2024 in Barcelona on Feb. 26, 2024. Xavi Torrent | Getty Photos Information | Getty Illustrations or photos Microsoft is shelling out $14.4 million to settle a circumstance in California around allegations that the corporation retaliated in opposition to staff who experienced […]
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How immigrants are helping to keep job growth hot while inflation cools
U.S. President Joe Biden greets members of the U.S. Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., February 29, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Immigration — both authorized and unauthorized — has helped the U.S. job market sustain a fiery run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say. The effect […]
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Dimon, Fraser and Moynihan will attend private Trump CEO meeting — some others will skip
US President Donald Trump gestures as CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan (L) speaks during a meeting with banking leaders to discuss how the financial services industry can meet the needs of customers affected by COVID-19 at the White House in Washington, DC on March 11, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images […]
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Nadella, Narayen among tech CEOs investing in cricket’s American dream
Cricket may not be as popular a sport in the U.S. as elsewhere in the world, but some high-profile CEOs and investors are trying to change that. As the Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup, co-hosted by the U.S. for the first time, ramps up, investors have pumped nearly a billion dollars into their American ambition. […]
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Microsoft says AI feature that captures screenshots on new PCs will be off by default after backlash
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an party on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, on May 20, 2024. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs Microsoft explained an synthetic intelligence characteristic on new PCs that captures screenshots and enables hunting of person activity will be off by default right after stability scientists established that attackers […]
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AI brokers are obtaining a ‘ChatGPT moment’ as traders look for what’s up coming soon after chatbots
Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Photographs Previously this year, economic solutions company Klarna claimed its artificial intelligence agent, run by OpenAI, experienced taken more than two-thirds of buyer chats and was accomplishing perform equal to that of 700 complete-time agents. That was following just just one month of use. Alexander Kvamme, CEO of customer […]
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