Satya Nadella
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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Microsoft launches consumption-based 365 Copilot Chat option for corporate users
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Microsoft May 20 Briefing event at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on May 20, 2024. Nadella unveiled a new category of PC on Monday that features generative artificial intelligence tools built directly into Windows, the company’s world leading operating system. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images […]
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Microsoft contributes $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft said Thursday that it’s contributing $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. The software maker is now more closely aligned […]
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Cohere co-founder sees big AI opportunity in enterprise, happy to stay out of ChatGPT’s way
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst is surrounded by chatter of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. He’s perfectly happy to stay out of the conversation. Founded in 2019, by ex-Google AI researchers, Cohere is valued in the billions of dollars and is one of the more high-profile names in the […]
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Microsoft confirms performance-based job cuts across departments
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a press briefing on the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington, on May 20, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft is cutting a small percentage of jobs across departments, based on performance, the company confirmed to CNBC on Wednesday. “At Microsoft we focus on high-performance […]
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OpenAI is done with Shipmas and staring down daunting challenges for 2025
Sam Altman Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI speaks during the Italian Tech Week 2024 at OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni on September 25, 2024 in Turin, Italy. Stefano Guidi | Getty Images News | Getty Images OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas,” which wrapped up on Friday, brought a sense of levity to end the year. The […]
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Tech companies most threatened by Trump are donating to his inauguration fund
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump smiles at the crowd during the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition at Huntington Place Convention Center on Aug. 26, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. Emily Elconin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have a particularly […]
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Michael Saylor’s case for Microsoft buying Bitcoin gets rejected by shareholders
Michael Saylor, the billionaire bitcoin investor whose turned his company, MicroStrategy, into a high-risk proxy for the cryptocurrency, has been encouraging Microsoft to use some of its massive cash pile to follow his lead. But shareholders on Tuesday said no. In October, Microsoft told investors that the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative […]
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Microsoft introduces PC that has one job: connect users to their computers in the cloud
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella watches from the audience during a press briefing at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, on May 20, 2024. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Microsoft is previewing a new PC that’s designed to connect corporate workers to their programs and files in the cloud. The Windows 365 Cloud Link is […]
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Microsoft’s stock heads for worst day in two years after disappointing forecast
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft‘s better-than-expected earnings report wasn’t enough to prevent the stock’s steepest sell-off in two years, as investors instead focused on the company’s forecast for the current period. Microsoft […]
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