At Microsoft's recent Build developer conference in Seattle, software engineer Joe Lopez was terminated after publicly protesting the company's provision of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the Israeli military amid the ongoing Gaza conflict. Lopez interrupted CEO Satya Nadella's...
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The reverberations from global conflicts rarely fail to reach the technology world, but the events at Microsoft’s recent Build developer conference in Seattle demonstrated just how intimately intertwined tech giants have become with geopolitical strife. As CEO Satya Nadella took the stage to...
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