Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference, with on-stage appearances by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and even more industry executives. The big topic, unsurprisingly, was AI, with CEOs laying…

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Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports. Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state filings. Relatively few sales or marketing positions were affected, Bloomberg added.  To be fair, coders are…

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#How Microsoft wins after the OpenAI shake-up

#How Microsoft wins after the OpenAI shake-up

Nearly one year after OpenAI launched the popular ChatGPT tool, company CEO and co-founder Sam Altman is heading to Microsoft after a surprise ousting. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Monday that Altman, along with former OpenAI President and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman, will lead a generative artificial intelligence (AI) team at the tech giant. The…

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#Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighs in on Bill Gates affair

#Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighs in on Bill Gates affair

“#Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighs in on Bill Gates affair” Microsoft’s CEO has finally weighed in on reports that the tech giant’s co-founder Bill Gates had an affair with an employee two decades ago — and insists that the company’s culture has changed. “The Microsoft of 2021 is very different from the Microsoft of 2000,”…

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#Microsoft defends diversity efforts after feds cry discrimination

#Microsoft defends diversity efforts after feds cry discrimination

“#Microsoft defends diversity efforts after feds cry discrimination” Microsoft stood by its efforts to hire and promote more black staffers this week after the feds raised concerns that it was making discriminatory employment decisions. The US Department of Labor took issue with Microsoft’s June pledge to double its number of black and African American managers…

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