Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal
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A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others
Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project … X: @mattmday . LinkedIn: Rachel Metz and Max Chafkin . Forums:...
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run its consumer AI business, reporting to Satya Nadella, and hires most of the staff from Inflection AI
Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI — Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head … X: @dinabass X: Dina Bass / @dinabass : Microsoft is hiring Google DeepMind Co-Fou...
Microsoft completes its Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with regulators in the UK and the US; Bobby Kotick will remain CEO through 2023
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How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom
In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 … LinkedIn: Peter Leyden . Tweets: @business , @iporollo , @bw , @dina...
Sources: Microsoft cuts jobs in its Surface, HoloLens, and Xbox units; heavy cuts to the HoloLens hardware team raise questions about the third goggles version
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Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing its headcount by less than 5%, and take a $1.2B charge tied to severance and more
Yesterday, Microsoft announced it would be the latest tech … Esther Shein / TechRepublic : Microsoft will lay off 10,000 employees Ana Kessler / 80 Level : Microsoft Is Laying Off 10,000 Employees Wad...
After being fired as co-head of Google's Ethical AI group, Margaret Mitchell will join Hugging Face, an AI startup that aims to make algorithms fair
Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Tweets: @dinabass , @mmitchell_ai , and @timnitgebru Tweets: Dina Bass / @dinabass : Former Google Co-head of Ethical AI Research Margaret Mitchell will join @huggingface to w...
As tech giants renew vows to diversify their workforces, a look at why their efforts have fallen short, especially in retaining new Black and Latinx employees
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Bill Gates has stepped down from the Microsoft's Board of Directors, will continue to serve as Technology Advisor to CEO Satya Nadella
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CNBC : Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board Paul Morris / Redmond Pie : Bill Gates Has Announced He's Stepping Down From The Microsoft Board Louis Casiano / Fox ...