ai controversy

Mustafa Suleyman’s inaugural year as the CEO of Microsoft AI has been anything but a honeymoon period. Hailed as one of the AI industry’s most accomplished minds after co-founding Google DeepMind and the high-profile startup Inflection, Suleyman was brought in to lead Microsoft’s consumer AI...

Pomp and circumstance filled the air at Microsoft’s Redmond campus on April 4, 2025, as the tech behemoth celebrated its 50th anniversary—an institution that has, by all accounts, transformed not just itself, but the way billions of people live, work, and communicate across the globe. Yet as...

Unpacking the Boycott: BDS, Microsoft, and the Intersection of Tech and Global Politics A rising tide of controversy is challenging the tech behemoth Microsoft, as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement calls on gamers and consumers worldwide to sever ties with the company's...

Microsoft Copilot—once hailed as a breakthrough in AI-powered productivity—has found itself at the center of a controversy that could shake the very foundation of Windows security and licensing. Recent tests have revealed that Copilot is providing users with step-by-step instructions to...

In a plot twist straight out of a tech drama, Microsoft is putting the impressive Chinese AI model, DeepSeek R1, front and center on its Azure AI Foundry platform while simultaneously launching an investigation into the origins of that very model. DeepSeek's rise to prominence in the AI space...