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‘Microsoft powered genocide for 994 days’: Employee quits in dramatic resignation email, sends 'unhappy email' to thousands of company's employees. Here's what he wroteA Microsoft employee in Italy has resigned, alleging the tech giant fuels Israel's military actions in Gaza. His farewell email claims Micr...- Microsoft makes big AI inroads in China by selling OpenAI modelsMicrosoft is significantly growing its AI business in China, with ByteDance reportedly spending over $1 billion annually on its cloud and A...
- OpenAI joins rival Anthropic in race to Wall StreetOpenAI did not disclose the size or terms of the offering, and said a timeline has not yet been determined. "It may be a while because ther...
- OpenAI files for US IPO after Anthropic as AI giants head to public marketsAI giant OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering. This move follows rival Anthropic's similar filing. Investors ar...
- Govt amends IT rules, with focus on AI contentThe amendments to the IT Act has the potential to cause convulsions in the social media industry, as the new laws slash the timeline to tak...
- Bill Gates called it 'burning a billion dollars,' but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella still invested it anyway. Guess who was right?In 2019, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ignored Bill Gates’ warning that investing $1 billion in OpenAI would be like “burning money.” Five ye...
- Amazon's massive layoffs; Founders cash in IPOAmazon will cut tens of thousands of corporate roles in a major workforce reshuffle. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
- Microsoft drops the hammer: 4 workers fired after bold headquarters sit-in protestMicrosoft fired four employees after a protest at its Redmond headquarters. The workers had broken into executive offices to demand the com...
- Apple WWDC 2025: After Microsoft, Tim Cook-led tech giant's annual software event interrupted by protest; Watch videoTech conferences faced disruptions recently. At Apple's event, a protester displayed a keffiyeh. This followed a similar incident at Micros...
- Former Microsoft engineer Vaniya Agrawal continues anti-Israel protests by disrupting Build 2025 AI eventVaniya Agrawal's Microsoft protest escalates as the former AI engineer interrupts Build 2025 in Seattle, challenging the company’s cloud de...
- Microsoft filters emails containing ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza,’ and ‘genocide’ amid employee protestsMicrosoft is filtering internal emails containing terms like “Palestine” and “Gaza,” sparking internal unrest and protest. The move, linked...
- Protester shouts 'show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians' during CEO Satya Nadella's key speech; Watch video hereMicrosoft's Build 2025 was disrupted by protests against its contracts with the Israeli government, led by an employee accusing the company...
- Elon Musk, who's suing Microsoft, is also software giant's special guest in new Grok AI partnershipMusk last year sued Microsoft and its close business partner OpenAI in a dispute over Musk's foundational contributions to OpenAI, which Mu...
- Microsoft strikes deal with Elon Musk to host Grok AIThe Grok chatbot last week ignited controversy by answering unrelated user prompts with unbacked right-wing propaganda about purported oppr...
- Was Xbox Live down due to Microsoft outage? Here's what we knowXbox gamers were in for a shock on Friday as they were signed out of their Microsoft accounts, without being able to sing in or connect to ...
- Microsoft backs Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens: reportTravis Kalanick, who was ousted from Uber in June 2017 after a series of scandals, took over the real-estate company City Storage Systems, ...
- New edtech unicorn; Twitter locks Congress accountsEruditus’ mammoth funding has made it a unicorn, thrice over. Twitter locks Congress accounts days after complying with India IT rules. A b...
- We need to fix AI’s bias problem: Microsoft’s Harry ShumCiting an example of AI bias, Shum said the search results for CEO as of today is “well dressed smiling men, largely white male”.
- Oracle strikes alliance with Xamarin to take on Amazon, IBM and MicrosoftAs part of the deal, Xamarin is launching a new cloud tool that competes with Amazon Web Services, IBM's Bluemix and Microsoft Azure.
- Maharashtra govt to use Microsoft's Azure cloud for citizen dataThe digital-locker scheme is one of the planks of Modi's Digital India programme, which is expected to improve governance by delivering som...
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