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Bill Gates rejects 'doomsday' narrative, calls for balance on climate

Bill Gates urges a shift from "doomsday" climate narratives to strategies that balance emissions cuts with health, development, and adaptation ahead of the COP30 summit in Brazil

Microsoft CEO Nadella's pay hits record $96.5 million amid AI growth

The compensation committee said in its report that the results demonstrated that Satya Nadella and his leadership team had positioned Microsoft as a clear leader in artificial intelligence

Trump asks Microsoft to fire ex-Biden aide Lisa Monaco over security threat

US President Trump has called for the dismissal of Microsoft's president of global affairs, citing revoked security clearances and potential risks to sensitive government contracts

$100k H-1B visa fee: Microsoft asks employees to stay in US, not travel out

In the email, sent to its employees, Microsoft also asks those who are outside the US and with H1-B and H4 visas to return to the country immediately

Microsoft to probe Israel tech use, condemns protest at Brad Smith's office

An employee group called 'No Azure for Apartheid' says that by selling software and AI tools to Israel's military, the company's Azure cloud service is profiting from the deaths of civilians

Microsoft's annual cloud revenue hits $75 bn, profit beats expectations

Microsoft said Wednesday that annual revenue for its flagship cloud computing platform rose 34 per cent to $75 billion. The Azure cloud business has been a centrepiece of Microsoft's efforts to shift its focus to artificial intelligence. The software giant said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit was $34.3 billion, or $3.65 per share, beating analyst expectations for $3.37 per share. It posted revenue of $76.4 billion in the April-June period, up 18 per cent from last year. Analysts polled by FactSet Research had been looking for revenue of $73.86 billion. Microsoft has announced layoffs of about 15,000 workers this year even as its profits have soared. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees last week the layoffs were weighing heavily on him but also positioned them as an opportunity to reimagine the company's mission for an AI era. Promises of a leaner approach have been welcomed on Wall Street, especially as Microsoft and other tech giants are trying to justify huge amounts of

Microsoft fires 2 employees who protested during company's 50th anniversary

The company informed Aboussad that her employment had been terminated due to 'acts of misconduct'

Bill Gates reflects on 50-year-old code that revolutionized technology

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates printed out on a teletype machine may look crude compared to what's powering today's artificial intelligence platforms, it played a critical role in creating Microsoft in April 1975 a golden anniversary that the Redmond, Washington, company will celebrate on Friday. Gates, 69, set the stage for that jubilee with a blog post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend the late Paul Allen scrambled to create the world's first software factory after reading an article in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a minicomputer that would be powered by a tiny chip made by the then-obscure technology company, Intel. The article inspired Gates, who was just a freshman at Harvard University, and Allen to call Altair's maker, Micro Instrumentation

Microsoft to train 2 lakh youth in Andhra Pradesh on AI, tech skills

Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh on Thursday announced that the state government has entered into an agreement with global tech giant Microsoft to train two lakh youth in Artificial Intelligence and advanced skills. The Minister stated that the partnership with Microsoft will enhance the employability of the state's youth and prepare them for global opportunities. "Through this partnership two lakh youngsters will receive world-class training, boosting their employability and equipping them for global opportunities," Lokesh wrote in a post on 'X'. According to Nara Lokesh, the Andhra Pradesh government is placing a strong emphasis on skill development, with a commitment to make the state a hub for future-ready talent, driving innovation and growth.

Microsoft to retire Skype in May 2025, shifts focus to Microsoft Teams

According to data from Statista, as of March 2024, India accounts for around 4.55 per cent of Skype's user base

Microsoft names former GE CFO Dybeck as operations chief amid AI push

The appointment comes at a time when Microsoft is aggressively pursuing the lead in the cloud services market and trying to close the gap with Amazon's Amazon Web Services

Chipmaker firm Nvidia's 591,078% rally to most valuable stock came in waves

On Tuesday, that run culminated in Nvidia unseating Microsoft Corp. as the world's most valuable company with a market capitalisation of $3.34 trillion

Microsoft promotes new tools for making AI software amid competition

At a developer conference in Seattle, Chief Executive Satya Nadella promoted new application programming interfaces, or APIs

Microsoft Copilot: AI chatbot that will remember everything you do on PC

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you're doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next. The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from Big Tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home. The announcements ahead of Microsoft's annual Build developer conference in Seattle centered on imbuing AI features into a product where Microsoft already has the eyes of millions of consumers: the Windows operating system for personal computers. The new features will include Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory. Microsoft promises to protect users' privacy by giving them the option to filter

Microsoft asks some China-based staff to relocate amid Sino-US tensions

Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 people who are involved in machine learning and other cloud computing-related work to consider relocating, according to the Wall Street Journal

Microsoft to launch own mobile-game store, to compete with Apple, Google

Sarah Bond says the store is launching on the web, versus an app, so it's accessible across all devices, all countries, no matter what, independent of the policies of closed ecosystem stores.

Microsoft acquires a 48-acre plot in Hyderabad. Here's how much it paid

Tech giant Microsoft Corporation has acquired a 48-acre parcel of land in Hyderabad to develop one of the largest data centres in the area

G42 made secret pact with US to divest from China before Microsoft deal

In exchange for the Chinese divestment, G42 was assured that it would have continued access to US technology that powers AI applications, one of the people said

Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity

In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying a cascade of errors by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior US officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The Cyber Safety Review Board, created in 2021 by executive order, describes shoddy cybersecurity practices, a lax corporate culture and a lack of sincerity about the company's knowledge of the targeted breach, which affected multiple US agencies that deal with China. It concluded that Microsoft's security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul" given the company's ubiquity and critical role in the global technology ecosystem. Microsoft products underpin essential services that support national security, the foundations of our economy, and public health and safety. The panel said the intrusion, discovered in June by the State Department and dating to May w

Microsoft to pay Inflection AI $650 mn after scooping up most of staff

As part of the deal, Microsoft will pay $620 million to license Inflection's AI models and around $30 million for waiving any legal rights related to the mass hiring