At Microsoft’s flagship Build conference this week, a keynote address by CEO Satya Nadella was upended by an impassioned protest from an employee, drawing rare attention to the mounting wave of tech worker activism at the intersection of ethics, war, and artificial intelligence. As onlookers in...
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A cavernous hush settled over the Great Hall in Seattle as Microsoft’s luminaries gathered to honor five decades of invention, determination, and—most recently—controversy. If ever an occasion was destined for triumphant nostalgia, this was it. Yet the mood was anything but celebratory. The...
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Microsoft's 50th anniversary event was supposed to be a shining moment showcasing innovation, featuring the latest updates to its Copilot AI assistant. Instead, it became the stage for an unexpected protest that has ignited a storm of discussion about the ethics of AI and the intersection of...
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