News about Satya Nadella

ALEX BRUMMER: Fear that music will stop because of AI

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 2, 2024
The government is keen to give AI advocates a free ride under pressure from big tech. The most recent plans are for an opt-in policy. Performers and producers, ranging from the top celebrities to rock bands honing their skills in the local pub or classical musicians, will need to obtain a license to protect their AI. Any information that hasn't signed up will be subjected to copying, distortion, or simple theft.

Iliad's proposal to merge Italian companies is rejected by Vodafone

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 31, 2024
According to Iliad, Vodafone has turned down a revised bid to merge its Italian arm with that of French telecoms operator Iliad. Iliad, a billionaire Xavier Niel company, reported in December that it had submitted a bid to merge the Italian companies. Vodafone's latest bid would have included €6.6 billion in cash and a €2 billion equity loan. Iliad's loan would have been worth €400 million in cash and a €2 billion loan.

The rise of AI deepfake porn that has attacked Taylor Swift is 'alarming and tragic,' according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 27, 2024
According to NBC's Lester Holt, the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, that tech firms and law enforcement should work together to reduce deepfake porn, but did not specify how Microsoft would react. Microsoft and other tech firms, Nadella, owed it to the fact that they had to place all of the guardrails around the device so that there is more safe content being produced.' According to him, there needs to be more agreement on what is acceptable and greater cooperation is required. We can do, especially when you have rule and law enforcement and tech platforms that can work together.' I think we can do more than we think, and we should give ourselves credit for that.'

Vodafone will go to AI with a £1.2 billion Microsoft contract

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 16, 2024
Vodafone has agreed to a 10-year agreement with US tech giant Microsoft that will see the London-listed company adopt artificial intelligence and replace physical data centers. Vodafone clients could soon be greeted and contacted by chatbots powered by the latest generative AI techniques, which could be used to resolve disputes and inquiries.

As tech job layoffs keep increasing, Google laid off hundreds of workers

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 11, 2024
Hundreds of employees on Google's hardware, voice assistance, and engineering teams have been laid off as part of a cost-cutting initiative. Google did not disclose how many jobs had been cut, but studies showed that "several hundred" jobs were affected globally. According to some studies, over 600 jobs had been laid off. Google announced that it would lay off 12,000 workers, or around 6 percent of its workforce, in an attempt to cut costs a year ago.

This year, the tech workforce saw a bloodbath: Over 260,000 workers were laid off as a result of industry struggles to save money

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 28, 2023
Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook chief Meta and Microsoft, among the industry's most notable firms, have made significant layoffs. Since January, a total of 261,847 workers have been fired, up more than 50% from the 164,969 who were allowed to go in 2022. When 89,579 people lost their jobs in January, the layoffs reached their high point.

In the OpenAI case, the UK watchdog Competition and Markets Authority and Microsoft are fighting it out

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 8, 2023
The CMA said it is looking at the tech giant's multi billion-pound relationship with OpenAI and whether it could be classified as a merger. The CMA is the first authority to question the tie, but other nations are expected to follow the UK's example. According to unconfirmed reports, the US Federal Trade Commission is also investigating Microsoft's investments in the organization.

Elon Musk leads reaction to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella hiring ousted OpenAI boss Sam Altman saying 'Now they have to use teams' as social media explodes over stealth move: 'Pulling this off before the market opens is crazy!'

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 20, 2023
Sam Altman (left) being recruited by Microsoft has elicited a lot of reaction on social media in reaction. Nadella's decision has been praised as a brave move by the company, who has made no hint of aiming to push Microsoft ahead of its rivals in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Many online have expressed their displeasure with Nadella's robbery attempt, with the Microsoft CEO being dubbed the "unique CEO," a "4D chess player," and compared to Succession's Logan Roy due to his strong market instincts. Some have dubbed him "the smartest" while others applauded his 'incredible' stealth attempt, with one releasing a meme of an UNO reverse card to highlight what they see as his 'gameplay'.

At Microsoft and Google, artificial intelligence has made landfall

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2023
Last night, two of America's largest companies reported combined earnings of nearly £35 billion as they continued to fight for supremacy in the battle to conquer the market for artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft's profits for the three months leading up to £18.3 billion, to £18.3 billion, according to a statement, while revenues increased 13pc to £46.5 billion. Satya Nadella, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, said the firm was'making AI real for people and businesses around the world.'

When fighting for AI dominance, Microsoft and Alphabet post promising results

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 26, 2023
Microsoft announced that its profits for the three months leading up to £15.6 billion had grown 20% to £43.6 billion, while revenues increased 8 percent to £43.6 billion. However, Alphabet, a Google parent, reported a net loss of £14.2 billion for the time period, up from £12.4 billion the previous year, though sales increased 75% to £57.8 billion.

ChatGPT and Microsoft chiefs join US and European elites in Lisbon for secretive conference

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 19, 2023
The Bilderberg meeting, an annual summit that brings together the business and political elite for an off-the-record conference, is now underway in the Portuguese capital, and AI is expected to top the agenda. The talks on artificial intelligence, specializing in the design of our future, are expected to include Open AI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Microsoft chief honcho Satya Nadella (centre). However, the 69th Bilderberg meeting will include the northern hemisphere's top experts on topics such as China, the Russia-Ukraine war, climate change, and the banking system, with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (right), Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and BP CEO Bernard Looney among others.

Could your Isa profit from a chatbot?

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 21, 2023
ChatGPT, an advanced chatbot that uses AI to complete all manner of tasks, has made news around the world since its introduction in November. ChatGPT makes it possible for its customers to ask questions or instructions. The chatbot, rather than simply delivering facts, is able to produce intelligent text in a matter of seconds from a vast and complex virtual'mind'.

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Alphabet are Republicans, according to Republicans

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 15, 2023
Jim Jordan has subpoenaed some of the top tech names to hand over a flurry of documents to the House Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary chairman intends that all documents and communications relating to suspected collusion with the government and tech firms be blacklisted online. The subpoena specifically calls out to CEO Mark Zuckerberg of Meta; Tim Cook of Apple; Sundar Pichai of Alphabet; and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.

Microsoft is set to cut 5% of its workforce - or 11,000 roles

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 17, 2023
After Amazon, Salesforce, and Facebook-owner Meta all made similar announcements, Microsoft has become the largest tech giant to announce a slew of job losses. The software behemoth is expected to see 11, 000 jobs, or around 5 percent of its workforce. Satya Nadella, the chairman and chief executive, will advise investors on the company's financial results on January 24, with an announcement on job losses expected to arrive before that.

LSE will receive a £1.5 billion stake. The Exchange will embrace cloud technology

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 12, 2022
Based on the latest market value, the transaction would make the US technology behemoth a major shareholder in the FTSE 100 company, with its interest worth £1.5 billion. Microsoft, which will also serve on the board of a UK company, is buying the stake from a consortium of investors, including US investment bank Blackstone, Thomson Reuters, a Canadian pension fund, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund.

Alphabet's shares fell by 6% after the company announced the company's slowest sales growth since 2013

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2022
With the latest earnings report, Google's parent company Alphabet met hopes, while Microsoft revealed mixed results, with cloud revenue falling lower than Wall Street expected. After the closing bell on Thursday, the two tech titans reported their third-quarter financial results, with Alphabet down nearly 60% and Microsoft's down more than 2%. The findings were a disappointment for investors and a predictor of the tech industry, which has accounted for Wall Street's losses this year as interest rates rise and fears of a dramatic downturn increase. Meta and Amazon's Facebook parent Meta will publish their news later this week.

Bosses struggle to fill £55-an-hour PA roles because so few candidates want to return to the office

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 25, 2022
Bosses are struggling to fill £55-an-hour PA positions because so few candidates want to return to the office when almost half of the applicants were only eligible for remote working. According to experts, staff are in a good situation considering that the job market is constrained, with low unemployment and a high number of job vacancies. According to estimates, there were 1.3 million jobs in the economy, twice the previous average rate of the last ten years. During the meantime, British citizens are leading the way in refusing to return to the workplace and finding a new career or a new career that involves returning to work full time.

Staff say they work just as well at home as they do in the office... But guess what?Bosses disagree

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 24, 2022
According to a Microsoft poll, 80% of managers believe that employees get more work done in the office. However, 87 percent of their employees agree they are just as effective at home - or even more so. The tech giant asked over 20,000 workers in 11 countries about working from home. We have to get past "productivity hysteria" because all of the data we have shows that 80 percent of the individual people are highly efficient, but their managers assume they are not responsible. It means there is a real disconnect between the intention and what they feel.'

Despite 87% of employees' claims that they are more efficient, bossess thinks staff do LESS work at home

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 23, 2022
Workers generally agree that they are more efficient at home, but that the majority of employers disagree, contributing to a fundamental disconnect in work environments, according to a large study by Microsoft. More than 20,000 workers from 11 countries were interviewed by the researchers, who discovered that bosses and their staff generally disagreed with working from home. Satya Nadella (pictured) told the BBC that this problem must be addressed because employees were unlikely to resume to pre-pandemic work habits.