Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers https://arstechni.ca/AQUs #communitydevelopment #AIinfrastructure #machinelearning #propertytaxes #skilledtrades #datacenters #DonaldTrump #electricity #AItraining #bradsmith #microsoft #wateruse #Biz&IT #Amazon #google #openai #meta #AI

ALS – Wie Brad Smith mit Neuralink und Insta360 am Leben teilhat
Fortschritte bei Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstellen und smarter Kameratechnik verhelfen Menschen mit ALS zu mehr Selbstbestimmung. Das Beispiel von Brad Smith zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie Techni
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/als-wie-brad-smith-mit-neuralink-und-insta360-am-leben-teilhat/
#KI #News #Tellerrand #ALS #Assistenzsysteme #Barrierefreiheit #BradSmith #GehirnComputerSchnittstelle #Insta360 #Neuralink #Technologie

Microsoft engineer quits after 13 years; sends resignation email to thousands of employees: I can no longer work for a company that is…

Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 year…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #amazon-web-services #Azurecloudservices #bradsmith #EmployeedissentatMicrosoft #IL #Israel #IsraeliDefenseForces #Israelimilitarycontracts #Microsoft #Microsoftengineerresignation #Microsoftprotests #NoAzureforApartheidgroup
https://www.newsbeep.com/176776/

Weekly output: Android + Chrome OS, Qualcomm’s AI vision, Microsoft cancels some IDF Unit 8200 services

This week’s trip to Hawaii and back for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit–with that company paying my airfare and lodging for its invitation-only event–reminded me once again of the vast size of the United States. And yet I was able to wake up painfully early Friday morning on Maui, take a flight to San Francisco, board a second flight from SFO to Dulles, and land at IAD in time to catch the night’s last eastbound Silver Line train from the airport.

9/25/2025: Google Teases Its Android PC Project Again. Qualcomm Says ‘It’s Incredible’, PCMag

I wrote an update to this post by PCMag’s U.K.-based correspondent James Peckham after seeing a Google executive share a few more details about this upcoming rebuild of ChromeOS on an Android foundation in Wednesday’s keynote.

9/25/2025: Qualcomm’s CEO Touts a Future Where AI (and Cameras) Are Everywhere, PCMag

It wasn’t until I was an hour into writing up Tuesday afternoon’s keynote early Wednesday morning that I realized how Qualcomm’s vision of AI acting upon the inputs of always-on cameras in smart glasses and cars unintentionally echoed the “always-on camera” branding it had briefly and unwisely picked for a human-presence detection system in smartphones almost four years earlier.

9/27/2025: What’s behind Microsoft’s canceling of some services to Israel’s military?, Al Jazeera

I didn’t get to sleep in Saturday morning after coming home around 2 a.m. Instead, Al Jazeera asked me to join this discussion recorded then about Microsoft canceling some cloud services for the Israeli Defense Forces after reporting by the Guardian and the Israel-based news outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call documented how the IDF’s Unit 8200 had employed those services to conduct a pervasive and invasive surveillance campaign against Palestinians. My fellow panelists: Taghreed El-Khodary, a Palestinian journalist now based in the Netherlands, and Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. One of my contributions was reminding viewers of Microsoft president Brad Smith’s words at Web Summit 2018: “The tools that we’ve created, the tools often times that you’ve created, have been turned by others into weapons.”

#AI #android #BradSmith #ChromeOS #CristianoAmon #Gaza #GoogleOSes #IDF #Microsoft #privacy #Qualcomm #SameerSamat #smartGlasses #SnapdragonSummit #Unit8200

Major AI investments are surging in the UK, with Ryan Browne highlighting Microsoft's $30B commitment by 2028 to expand AI infrastructure and build the largest UK supercomputer. Alongside Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and Salesforce, these giants are reshaping the tech landscape. Discover the impact on jobs and innovation: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/tech-giants-to-pour-billions-into-uk-ai-heres-what-we-know-so-far.html. Great insights from Ryan Browne! #Microsoft #AI #UKinvestment #Nvidia #Google #OpenAI #Salesforce #technology #BradSmith #satyanadella #Trump #KeirStarmer

Andy Jassy : Amazon suspends engineer who sent ‘threatening’ letter to CEO Andy Jassy, saying: I am left with no choice but to…. |

Amazon has suspended a Palestinian software engineer who criticized the company’s business ties with …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AhmedShahrour #Amazon #Amazonengineersuspension #AmazonIsraeltiescriticism #andyjassy #bradsmith #GoogleMicrosoftIsraelcontract #IL #Israel #NoAzureforApartheid #pro-Palestinianproteststech #ProjectNimbus
https://www.newsbeep.com/120331/

#Microsoft a licencié 2 employés le 27 août, et 2 autres jeudi 28 août. Leur faute ? Avoir occupé le bureau https://www.frandroid.com/marques/microsoft/2772383_des-manifestants-occupent-le-bureau-du-president-de-microsoft-pour-denoncer-ses-liens-avec-larmee-israelienne du président de la multinationale #BradSmith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Smith_(American_lawyer) pour dénoncer ses liens avec l’armée israélienne génocidaire https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/2025-08-26/des-manifestants-pro-palestine-ont-occupe-le-bureau-du-president-de-microsoft.php

Début août,plusieurs médias avaient révélé que le géant de l’informatique stockait des données de renseignement israéliennes utilisées pour cibler les Palestiniens https://www.humanite.fr/monde/criminalisation/microsoft-licencie-quatre-employes-accuses-davoir-denonce-la-complicite-du-geant-de-la-tech-dans-le-genocide-a-gaza

#israel #genocide

Protestgruppe besetzt Büro von Microsoft-Manager #BradSmith auf dem Redmonder Campus. Das Gebäude wurde daraufhin in den "#Lockdown" versetzt, die Polizei nahm die Demonstranten fest. #Microsoft https://winfuture.de/news,153220.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

CNN Unveils New Programming For Headlines FAST Channel
#News #Politics #BradSmith #CNN #CNNHeadlines #ElectionLine

https://deadline.com/2025/08/cnn-headlines-fast-channel-1236490654/

FTC lässt Klage gegen Übernahme von Activision Blizzard fallen
Die Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hat das Verfahren gegen Microsofts Erwerb von Activision Blizzard offiziell eingestellt.
https://xboxdev.com/ftc-laesst-klage-gegen-uebernahme-von-activision-blizzard-fallen/
#Wirtschaft #ActivisionBlizzard #BradSmith #FTC #FTCVMicrosoft #Fusionskontrolle #Kartellrecht #Microsoft #OnlineSpielemarkt #USBezirksgericht

CNN Hires Brad Smith As Anchor For Its FAST Channel
#News #Politics #BradSmith #CNN #CNNHeadlines #ElectionLine

https://deadline.com/2025/07/cnn-fast-channel-brad-smith-1236451722/

Ex-Liverpool star made his Jurgen Klopp feelings very clear after he didn't recognise him
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-jurgen-klopp-brad-smith-31864348
One former Liverpool prospect was sold by ex-Reds manager Jurgen Klopp after the German admitted it was "too embarrassing" to ask who he was when he first took over #LFC #YNWA #BrendanRodgers #LiverpoolFC #JurgenKlopp #BradSmith

Microsoft Announces Digital Pledges for Europe, Promises To Resist Government Pressure

#Microsoft #Europe #CloudComputing #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity #EUPolicy #TechRegulation #DataSovereignty #EUDataBoundary #CloudInfrastructure #Datacenter #Azure #BradSmith

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/30/microsoft-announces-digital-pledges-for-europe-promises-to-resist-government-pressure-xcxwbn/

#Microsoft warns Trump: Where the #US won't sell #AI tech, #China will
In a blog post on the company's website, president and vice chair #BradSmith claimed that regulations brought in just before the end of the previous administration risk undermining America's ability to succeed in the emerging global AI economy.
Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/28/microsoft_trump_ai_exports/

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Table of #DOGE members.

(61 - 65) (of 68)

From #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#DOGE_members

61) #BradSmith, Chief of staff

62) #BrendanSpikes, Musk lieutenant, #OPM

63) #ChristopherStanley, Musk aide, OPM

64) #RussellVought, Director, #OMB

65) #JordanWick, Expert (coding), #CFPB

Premier @donald-tusk.bsky.social oraz wiceprezes Microsoftu #BradSmith poinformowali o uruchomieniu drugiej fazy inwestycji tej firmy w Polsce w centra obliczeniowe #wyborcza #biz @wyborcza.biz wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177...

Donald Tusk: Microsoft zainwes...

@KeineWunder

#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk

UPDATE

*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*

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"...At least four of the names haven't been previously reported. Among them are #KendalLindemann, 24, who worked for a healthcare firm founded by the senior DOGE official #BradSmith, and #AdamRamada, 35, an investor whose firm took a stake in a #SpaceX supplier last year.
Other new...

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-list-white-house-2025-2?insiderId=c8d4d656-9f75-4844-8f2d-48ca3eedba29

Liverpool made millions on transfer after FSG took ruthless approach to out-of-contract youngster
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-made-millions-brad-smith-21155416
Brad Smith made his debut for the Reds on this day in 2013. #LFC #YNWA #LiverpoolFCtransfernews #LiverpoolFC #BradSmith

"Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith warned the danger of foreign interference in the US election will surge in the final two days of the presidential campaign."

Microsoft Executive Warns of Election Meddling in Final 48 Hours
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-18/microsoft-executive-warns-of-election-meddling-in-final-48-hours

#microsoft #elections #msftadvocate #bradsmith