Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration was notably disrupted by internal protests concerning the company's contracts with the Israeli military. These events have ignited a broader conversation about the ethical responsibilities of tech companies in geopolitical conflicts.
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At Microsoft's Build 2025 conference in Seattle, a significant disruption occurred when Joe Lopez, a firmware engineer on the Azure hardware systems team, interrupted CEO Satya Nadella's keynote address. Lopez accused Microsoft of complicity in what he described as Israel's "ethnic cleansing" of...
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Microsoft's recent acknowledgment of providing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the Gaza conflict has ignited a firestorm of controversy. The tech giant asserts that there is no evidence its technologies were used to harm civilians...
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During Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration on April 4, 2025, two employees, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, publicly protested the company's involvement in supplying artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the Israeli military. These protests led to their subsequent termination...
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