tech governance

Sohini Desai’s Baffler dispatch is less a prediction than a status report: agentic AI—the class of autonomous assistants that do things, not just write things—is being sold as convenience, framed as inevitability, and built on a bargain the public never signed. The trade Desai describes is...

Mustafa Suleyman’s offhand praise of Elon Musk as a “bulldozer” with “superhuman capabilities to bend reality to his will” landed as more than celebrity name‑checking; it crystallized a strategic worldview from the executive now running Microsoft’s consumer AI organization — one that treats raw...

Mustafa Suleyman’s offhand description of Elon Musk as a “bulldozer” crystallizes a new tone among the industry’s most powerful players: blunt, candid, and strategically revealing about how competition, capability and values now intersect at the apex of the AI arms race. In a recent Bloomberg...

Microsoft has added a new channel inside its internal Integrity Portal that lets employees confidentially flag ethical, legal, or human‑rights concerns about how the company’s technology is developed, deployed, or used. Overview The new option — presented to staff as Trusted Technology Review —...

Microsoft has added a formal, anonymous channel inside its employee Integrity Portal called Trusted Technology Review, giving staff a dedicated, non‑retaliatory path to flag concerns about how Microsoft builds, sells, and deploys technology — a procedural change announced by Microsoft President...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark state law on October 13, 2025, that for the first time imposes specific safety guardrails on “companion” chatbots with the stated aim of protecting minors from self-harm, sexual exploitation, and prolonged emotional dependence on AI systems...

Microsoft has disabled a discrete set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after an external review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale collection and processing of Palestinian communications were supported by...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s president for global affairs, has opened a rare and volatile collision between the White House, Big Tech, national security policy, and corporate governance — unfolding amid Microsoft’s recent decision to restrict...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved fast from a marketing phrase to a platform-level feature that now shapes how millions of people search, write, schedule, analyze data, and even debug code — and with the arrival of GPT‑5 across Microsoft surfaces, that transformation has accelerated into a new phase...

The revelation that Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure underpins Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians marks a watershed moment for the global technology industry, igniting debate over corporate complicity, digital warfare, and the ethics of artificial intelligence in zones of conflict...

West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) has announced the renewal of its software licensing agreement with Microsoft, projecting savings of more than £1 million for taxpayers over the next three years. This move, which comes amid mounting fiscal pressures and an evolving technology landscape...

Open source software forms the scaffolding of modern digital economies, powering everything from mission-critical infrastructure to mobile apps, yet the world’s financial commitment to its maintenance and sustainability remains startlingly tenuous. This disconnect was cast into sharp relief by...

Microsoft has recently announced a significant policy shift: the company will no longer employ engineers based in China to provide technical support for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) cloud computing systems. This decision follows an investigative report by ProPublica that raised...

The deepening rift between Silicon Valley titans and European regulators over artificial intelligence has come sharply into focus with Meta Platforms’ highly publicized rejection of the European Union’s voluntary AI Code of Practice—a move signaling resistance to evolving regulatory frameworks...

In the modern era of digital transformation, a seismic shift is taking place in how global enterprises conceive, architect, and govern their most critical technology platforms. At the very heart of this evolution stands Sankar Thambireddy, a preeminent SAP Architect with a career profile that...

Here’s a summary of the Wild Tech “Agentic Governance in a Box” solution, as reported in IT Brief Australia: What is it? Wild Tech’s "Agentic Governance in a Box" is a governance toolkit for managing the deployment and oversight of AI agents within enterprise environments, particularly those...

The Microsoft Build conference was meant to spotlight the company’s groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence, but instead it exposed simmering tensions not just within the tech giant’s workforce but across the broader tech community. What unfolded during a security-focused...

As Microsoft faces intensified scrutiny over its role in supplying artificial intelligence and cloud services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the tech behemoth finds itself navigating a labyrinth of ethical, legal, and reputational pressures that are emblematic of the broader debate...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, was midway through his keynote address at the renowned Microsoft Build developer conference when the unexpected occurred—his presentation was disrupted by a protester demanding Palestinian rights. The incident, which swiftly drew widespread attention online, not...