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Japan Plans 14 New Nuclear Reactors by 2050 as Global Interest in Nuclear Energy Surges – News and Statistics

Jun 15, 2026 Japan has announced plans to rebuild more than a dozen nuclear reactors by 2050, according…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #AIdatacenters #Azure #BradSmith #china #Fukushima #Japanese #linkedin #LNG #Microsoft #nuclearreactors #solar #wind #Windows
https://www.europesays.com/japan/40557/

Microsoft publishes lengthy AI jobs manifesto but fails to promise no mass layoffs

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/microsoft-ai-jobs-manifesto-no-mass-layoffs/

Microsoft publishes lengthy AI jobs manifesto but fails to promise no mass layoffs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/microsoft-ai-jobs-manifesto-no-mass-layoffs/

Microsoft publishes lengthy AI jobs manifesto but fails to promise no mass layoffs

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/microsoft-ai-jobs-manifesto-no-mass-layoffs/

Microsoft publishes lengthy AI jobs manifesto but fails to promise no mass layoffs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/microsoft-ai-jobs-manifesto-no-mass-layoffs/

Microsoft publishes lengthy AI jobs manifesto but fails to promise no mass layoffs

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/microsoft-ai-jobs-manifesto-no-mass-layoffs/

https://www.europesays.com/people/99726/ Satya Nadella says Microsoft’s AI data center uses minimal water #AI #BradSmith #Featured #Microsoft #SatyaNadella

https://www.europesays.com/africa/240563/ Tanzania, US in talks over new health pact to boost local drug production #AbdallahSalehPossi #BradSmith #MohamedOmaryMchengerwa #Tanzania

Microsoft Israel has been placed under the management of Microsoft France, after the company announced the departure of…

Microsoft Israel’s chief has resigned following an internal probe into the misuse of Azure cloud services by the…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #AlonHaimovich #Azurecloudservices #bradsmith #IsraeliMinistryofDefense #Microsoft #MicrosoftFrance #MicrosoftIsrael #Microsoft'scodeofethics #Nimbusproject #Unit8200
https://www.europesays.com/france/14579/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/111261/ Microsoft Israel has been placed under the management of Microsoft France, after the company announced the departure of… #AlonHaimovich #AzureCloudServices #BradSmith #Israel #IsraeliMinistryOfDefense #Microsoft #MicrosoftFrance #MicrosoftIsrael #Microsoft'sCodeOfEthics #NimbusProject #Unit8200

https://www.europesays.com/people/64895/ Down Arrow Button Icon #Advice #Amazon #Billionaires #Blackstone #bosses #BradSmith #Business #Careers #Chatbots #ChatGPT #ChiefExecutiveOfficer(CEO) #emotions #Entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #EvergreenRefresh #Executives #Founders #Intuit #InvestingStrategy #InvestmentAdvice #investors #JeffBezos #Jobs #LeadershipAdvice #LehmanBrothers #Millionaires #mistakes #OpenAI #SamAltman #SmartphonesAndMobileDevices

https://www.europesays.com/uk/862645/ Amazon, Microsoft dodge UK cloud market dominance designations – POLITICO #BradSmith #Britain #cloud #digital #DigitalMarkets #England #GreatBritain #Industry #Markets #NorthernIreland #Scotland #Services #software #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

#Microsoft, #Nvidia claim #AI speeds approval of #nuclear plants
MS Pres #BradSmith said AI collaboration covers "the full lifecycle from permitting and design to construction and operations."
Nuclear has long held promise as a stable source of carbon-free power, aim of this initiative is to bring more of it online sooner.
Of course, Trump admin is seeking to solve this in a different way: by gutting the safety rules & skipping full environmental reviews for new reactors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/microsoft_nvidia_ai_nuclear/

#Microsoft, #Nvidia claim #AI speeds approval of #nuclear plants
MS Pres #BradSmith said AI collaboration covers "the full lifecycle from permitting and design to construction and operations."
Nuclear has long held promise as a stable source of carbon-free power, aim of this initiative is to bring more of it online sooner.
Of course, Trump admin is seeking to solve this in a different way: by gutting the safety rules & skipping full environmental reviews for new reactors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/microsoft_nvidia_ai_nuclear/

#Microsoft, #Nvidia claim #AI speeds approval of #nuclear plants
MS Pres #BradSmith said AI collaboration covers "the full lifecycle from permitting and design to construction and operations."
Nuclear has long held promise as a stable source of carbon-free power, aim of this initiative is to bring more of it online sooner.
Of course, Trump admin is seeking to solve this in a different way: by gutting the safety rules & skipping full environmental reviews for new reactors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/microsoft_nvidia_ai_nuclear/

#Microsoft, #Nvidia claim #AI speeds approval of #nuclear plants
MS Pres #BradSmith said AI collaboration covers "the full lifecycle from permitting and design to construction and operations."
Nuclear has long held promise as a stable source of carbon-free power, aim of this initiative is to bring more of it online sooner.
Of course, Trump admin is seeking to solve this in a different way: by gutting the safety rules & skipping full environmental reviews for new reactors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/microsoft_nvidia_ai_nuclear/

#Microsoft, #Nvidia claim #AI speeds approval of #nuclear plants
MS Pres #BradSmith said AI collaboration covers "the full lifecycle from permitting and design to construction and operations."
Nuclear has long held promise as a stable source of carbon-free power, aim of this initiative is to bring more of it online sooner.
Of course, Trump admin is seeking to solve this in a different way: by gutting the safety rules & skipping full environmental reviews for new reactors.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/microsoft_nvidia_ai_nuclear/

Security in a fragmented world: Cyber deterrence, NATO reform & the future of trusted tech https://www.byteseu.com/1800547/ #AI #BenedettaBerti #BradSmith #China #CyberSecurity #DavidSanger #Europe #GlobalStage #IanBremmer #MunichSecurityConference #NATO #Technology #WolfgangDierker

How GLP-1 drugs may be leading to new eating disorders

As millions of Americans take GLP‑1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro for weight loss or diabetes, doctors…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #AssociatedDisorders #bingeeatingdisorder #BradSmith #CA #Canada #eatingdisorders #Health #JillianLampert #medications #NationalAssociationofAnorexiaNervosa #patients #WeightLoss
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/456737/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/322222/ How GLP-1 drugs may be leading to new eating disorders #AssociatedDisorders #BingeEatingDisorder #BradSmith #EatingDisorders #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #Medication #Medications #patients #WeightLoss

Central Garden & Pet Q1 Earnings Call Highlights https://www.allforgardening.com/1592365/central-garden-pet-q1-earnings-call-highlights/ #AnimalHealth #BradSmith #CentralGarden&Pet #garden #gardener #gardening #GrossMargin #OperatingMargin #PortfolioOptimization

Central Garden & Pet Q1 Earnings Call Highlights https://www.allforgardening.com/1592365/central-garden-pet-q1-earnings-call-highlights/ #AnimalHealth #BradSmith #CentralGarden&Pet #garden #gardener #gardening #GrossMargin #OperatingMargin #PortfolioOptimization

Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company

NEW YORK (…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #Aerospaceanddefenseindustry #Aerospacetechnology #Alphabet #APTopNews #artificialintelligence #BradSmith #business #Datamanagementandstorage #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #generalnews #Inc. #Informationtechnology #jr. #MicrosoftCorp #Mississippi #Musk #neuralink #OpenAIInc #science #SendtoAppleNews #SPACECRAFT #SpaceX #technology #Tennessee #tesla #U.S.News #XCorp.
https://www.europesays.com/2750668/

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

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

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

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

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

The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest - A life sciences panel at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference Oct. 29, 202... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/the-enormous-barrier-that-threatens-economic-growth-in-the-pacific-northwest/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #fredhutchcancercenter #bradsmith #microsoft #tomlynch #civic

The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest - A life sciences panel at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference Oct. 29, 202... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/the-enormous-barrier-that-threatens-economic-growth-in-the-pacific-northwest/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #fredhutchcancercenter #bradsmith #microsoft #tomlynch #civic

The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest - A life sciences panel at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference Oct. 29, 202... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/the-enormous-barrier-that-threatens-economic-growth-in-the-pacific-northwest/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #fredhutchcancercenter #bradsmith #microsoft #tomlynch #civic

The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest - A life sciences panel at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference Oct. 29, 202... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/the-enormous-barrier-that-threatens-economic-growth-in-the-pacific-northwest/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #fredhutchcancercenter #bradsmith #microsoft #tomlynch #civic

The ‘enormous barrier’ that threatens economic growth in the Pacific Northwest - A life sciences panel at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference Oct. 29, 202... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/the-enormous-barrier-that-threatens-economic-growth-in-the-pacific-northwest/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #fredhutchcancercenter #bradsmith #microsoft #tomlynch #civic

Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip - Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith at the 2... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-brad-smith-makes-nuanced-ai-pitch-huge-potential-real-concerns-and-a-jon-stewart-clip/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #gov.chrisgregoire #sustainability #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip - Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith at the 2... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-brad-smith-makes-nuanced-ai-pitch-huge-potential-real-concerns-and-a-jon-stewart-clip/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #gov.chrisgregoire #sustainability #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip - Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith at the 2... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-brad-smith-makes-nuanced-ai-pitch-huge-potential-real-concerns-and-a-jon-stewart-clip/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #gov.chrisgregoire #sustainability #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip - Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith at the 2... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-brad-smith-makes-nuanced-ai-pitch-huge-potential-real-concerns-and-a-jon-stewart-clip/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #gov.chrisgregoire #sustainability #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip - Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith at the 2... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsofts-brad-smith-makes-nuanced-ai-pitch-huge-potential-real-concerns-and-a-jon-stewart-clip/ #cascadiainnovationcorridor #gov.chrisgregoire #sustainability #microsoft #bradsmith

China Is Closing the Quantum Technology Gap

The world has been paying close attention to the global contest for supremacy in artificial intelligence. But the…
#NewsBeep #News #Computing #ALPHABETINC-CLA #Artificialintelligence #AU #Australia #Beijing #BradSmith #China #HannahFry #INTLBUSINESSMACHINESCORP #MicrosoftCorp #quantumcomputing #Science #Technology #view
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/236625/

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 years, announced his resigna…
#Israel #News #AmazonWebServices #Azurecloudservices #BradSmith #EmployeedissentatMicrosoft #israelidefenseforces #Israelimilitarycontracts #Microsoft #Microsoftengineerresignation #Microsoftprotests #NoAzureforApartheidgroup
https://www.europesays.com/2484199/

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning - Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-to-provide-free-copilot-tools-for-washington-state-schools-amid-debate-over-ais-role-in-learning/ #artificialintelligence #elevatewashington #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning - Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-to-provide-free-copilot-tools-for-washington-state-schools-amid-debate-over-ais-role-in-learning/ #artificialintelligence #elevatewashington #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning - Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-to-provide-free-copilot-tools-for-washington-state-schools-amid-debate-over-ais-role-in-learning/ #artificialintelligence #elevatewashington #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning - Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-to-provide-free-copilot-tools-for-washington-state-schools-amid-debate-over-ais-role-in-learning/ #artificialintelligence #elevatewashington #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning - Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-to-provide-free-copilot-tools-for-washington-state-schools-amid-debate-over-ais-role-in-learning/ #artificialintelligence #elevatewashington #microsoft #bradsmith

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

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

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

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

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance - Red paint covers the Microsoft sign at the company’s headquarters in August after... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-cuts-off-israeli-militarys-access-to-tech-that-was-reportedly-used-in-palestinian-surveillance/ #noazureforapartheid #surveillance #microsoft #bradsmith #protest #israel #azure #gaza

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance - Red paint covers the Microsoft sign at the company’s headquarters in August after... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-cuts-off-israeli-militarys-access-to-tech-that-was-reportedly-used-in-palestinian-surveillance/ #noazureforapartheid #surveillance #microsoft #bradsmith #protest #israel #azure #gaza

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance - Red paint covers the Microsoft sign at the company’s headquarters in August after... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-cuts-off-israeli-militarys-access-to-tech-that-was-reportedly-used-in-palestinian-surveillance/ #noazureforapartheid #surveillance #microsoft #bradsmith #protest #israel #azure #gaza

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance - Red paint covers the Microsoft sign at the company’s headquarters in August after... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-cuts-off-israeli-militarys-access-to-tech-that-was-reportedly-used-in-palestinian-surveillance/ #noazureforapartheid #surveillance #microsoft #bradsmith #protest #israel #azure #gaza

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance - Red paint covers the Microsoft sign at the company’s headquarters in August after... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-cuts-off-israeli-militarys-access-to-tech-that-was-reportedly-used-in-palestinian-surveillance/ #noazureforapartheid #surveillance #microsoft #bradsmith #protest #israel #azure #gaza

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

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

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

Microsoft president calls on businesses and nonprofits to fight back against new taxes - Microsoft President Brad Smith (right) interviewed by Teresa Hust... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-president-calls-on-businesses-and-nonprofits-to-fight-back-against-new-taxes/ #seattlemetropolitanchamber #teresahutson #regulation #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft president calls on businesses and nonprofits to fight back against new taxes - Microsoft President Brad Smith (right) interviewed by Teresa Hust... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-president-calls-on-businesses-and-nonprofits-to-fight-back-against-new-taxes/ #seattlemetropolitanchamber #teresahutson #regulation #microsoft #bradsmith

Microsoft president calls on businesses and nonprofits to fight back against new taxes - Microsoft President Brad Smith (right) interviewed by Teresa Hust... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-president-calls-on-businesses-and-nonprofits-to-fight-back-against-new-taxes/ #seattlemetropolitanchamber #teresahutson #regulation #microsoft #bradsmith