Filing: Satya Nadella's total pay for fiscal 2025 rose nearly 22% YoY from $79.1M to $96.5M, including $84.2M in stock awards; MSFT is up ~23% so far in 2025
he got a 22% pay raise mirroring the $4 trillion tech giant's skyrocketing shares Cale Hunt / Windows Central : $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,00...
Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June
read Phil Spencer's note to staff Bloomberg : Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs IGN : Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Conf...
Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, capping a remarkable 21-year run for software that for many embodied the open internet and had 300M+ users in its heyday
you were right about almost everything WPXI-TV : End of an era: Skype is officially shut down Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : It's the end of the road for Skype Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware : Microsoft ...
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving. https://www.vox.com/... vs #ai #openai X: Sam Altman / @sama : i'm super appreciative of @janleike's contributions to openai's alig...
Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says investors in Inflection AI, which has raised more than $1.5B, will be made whole
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman from Inflection to Run Consumer AI Devesh Beri / MSPoweruser : Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft after CEO moves to the la...
Sources: Sam Altman's exit followed a “misalignment” between OpenAI's profit and nonprofit adherents; some may view the company's development speed as too risky
that AGI could kill all of humanity Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : The Information reports that Ilya told OpenAI employees that “this was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, whic...
Sources: OpenAI Interim CEO Mira Murati tried to calm shell-shocked employees in a companywide meeting following Sam Altman's firing
More senior staff are following Greg Brockman lead and resigning from the company after Sam was ousted. … X: Anissa Gardizy / @anissagardizy8 : OpenAI Interim CEO Mira Murati told staff in a companywi...
Inside Microsoft's decision to buy GitHub, which now has 36M registered developers, and how Microsoft is winning back developers with its open source focus
Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Tweets: @dinabass , @drlmaruping , @hkanji , @sr_mcdowell , @wtcm3 , and @peggyj Tweets: Dina Bass / @dinabass : In 2014, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie drafted a plan to buy GitHu...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @mattrosoff , @timbeejones...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @benedictevans , @benedict...