#brad-smith — Public Fediverse posts

#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/

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 to Join 2025 Morgan Stanley, BofA Events https://www.allforgardening.com/1515436/central-garden-pet-to-join-2025-morgan-stanley-bofa-events/ #2025BofASecuritiesLeveragedFinanceConference #2025MorganStanleyGlobalConsumer&RetailConference #BradSmith #Cent #CENTA #CentralGarden #CentralGarden&Pet #ConsumerAndRetail #December22025 #FiresideChat #garden #InvestorConferences #LeveragedFinance #NASDAQ:CENT #NASDAQ:CENTA #NikoLahanas

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

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 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

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 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

Protesters deny planting listening devices inside Microsoft exec’s office; company fires four workers - Anna Hattle, a Microsoft worker who was fired this week, speaks during a No Azure... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/protesters-deny-planting-listening-devices-inside-microsoft-execs-office-company-fires-four-workers/ #noazureforapartheid #employeeactivism #technologypolicy #cloudcomputing #satyanadella #humanrights #microsoft #bradsmith #palestine #protests #layoffs #redmond #israel

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

Microsoft President Brad Smith reclaims his office to address infiltration, protests, Israel contracts - Microsoft President Brad Smith addresses reporters in his office at the company’s... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-president-brad-smith-reclaims-his-office-to-address-infiltration-protests-and-israeli-contracts/ #microsoft #bradsmith

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

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

Microsoft plans record $30 billion in quarterly capital spending to meet surging AI demand - Microsoft plans to invest more than $30 billion in capital expenditures in th... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-plans-record-30b-in-quarterly-capital-spending-to-meet-surging-ai-demand/ #artificialintelligence #enterprisetechnology #capitalexpenditures #cloudinfrastructure #microsoftearnings #microsoftcopilot #microsoftlayoffs #cloudcomputing #satyanadella #aiadoption #bradsmith #azure

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/

@KeineWunder

#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk

UPDATE

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

(1/n)

"...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

Tuesday, I’ll flee D.C.’s 90-something temperatures for the 100-something temperatures of Las Vegas–but as I’ve realized over previous trips to that desert city for the Black Hat information-security conference, it really is a dry heat.

In addition to the posts below, my Patreon readers got a recap of a very long day of travel on Thursday of the previous week that saw me returning home about 21 hours after I’d stepped off of the front porch that morning.

7/30/2024: These Are the Services Seeing the Biggest Uptick in Passkey Adoption, PCMag

What I thought would be an easy writeup of an embargoed copy of a Dashlane study about passkey adoption among users of that password manager wound up enlightening me about Facebook’s support of that authentication standard. And once again, I found Facebook’s documentation out of date and incorrect.

7/31/2024: Here’s How Microsoft Wants to Shield You From Abusive AI–With Help From Congress, PCMag

I had ambitions of attending this downtown-D.C. event Tuesday afternoon featuring Microsoft’s vice chair and president Brad Smith, but my schedule ran away from me and I watched the proceedings online. And then I didn’t finish writing this piece until Wednesday morning, although that at least let me nod to news that day of the impending introduction of a new bill targeting AI impersonations of people.

8/2/2024: Circuit Court Throws a Stop Sign in Front of FCC’s Net-Neutrality Rules, PCMag

Reading this unanimous opinion from three judges–one named by Clinton, another a Biden appointee–that the Federal Communications Commission didn’t have the authority to put broadband providers into one of two possible regulatory buckets left me feeling like I’d been taking crazy pills over the last 20 years of the net-neutrality debate, during which the FCC has repeatedly done just that.

8/3/2024: Justice Department Sues TikTok, Alleging Massive Child-Privacy Violations, PCMag

I woke up Saturday thinking that somebody at PCMag was already covering the DOJ lawsuit against TikTok, but nobody had grabbed that story. So I set aside part of that morning to read the DOJ’s complaint, get a comment out of a TikTok publicist and write this post summarizing the department’s allegations.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/04/weekly-output-passkey-adoption-ai-safety-net-neutrality-doj-v-tiktok/

#AI #AIHarm #BradSmith #childPrivacy #COPPA #Dashlane #deepfakes #FacebookPasskeySupport #FCC #majorQuestionsDoctrine #Microsoft #netNeutrality #passkey #passkeys #TikTok

@punklawyer

#RealTime synopsis of #Microsoft president #BradSmith testifying before #Congress over #CyberSecurity #Failures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yADrtfAmLTo

SERIOUSLY tho.. WE GO THROUGH THIS SHIT (via major security failure from MS) every 4-6 years... and #WeHaveLearnedNothing from doing so
- the "security initiatives" last 12-18 months, then 'evaporate'

MS will ALWAYS choose "business' over 'security'

Redmond realizes #Recall requires radical rethink.

As you might recall, #MicrosoftRecall is a #privacy disaster. And now, #Microsoft has had to pull the flagship #AI feature of its shiny new “Copilot+ PC” brand.

At the 11th hour, Redmond saw it had some nasty #security implications, which couldn’t be tweaked in time for next week’s release of new #ARM PCs. The embarrassing U-turn came at the same time as Congress grilled Microsoft vice chair and CLO #BradSmith about #whistleblower accusations of slack security.

Egg, meet face. In #SBBlogwatch, we wonder why NOW. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2024/06/microsoft-recall-recalled-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI - Enlarge / Brad Smith, vice chairman and president of Microsoft, is swor... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2031477 #cloudserviceproviders #congressionalhearing #microsoftpresident #microsoftazure #cybersecurity #sataynadella #cyberattack #bradsmith #microsoft #congress #policy #russia #azure #china

🔐🚨 Breaking News: Microsoft's Brad Smith is set to be grilled by the Homeland Security Committee over recent cybersecurity lapses involving major breaches by China and Russia. With the rise of cyber threats, it's crucial to hold tech giants accountable and ensure they step up their game! 🕵️‍♂️💻

Stay tuned as the story unfolds and see how this will shape the future of cybersecurity. 💬 What are your thoughts on this? Comment below! ⬇️

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#Microsoft #CyberSecurity #TechNews #BradSmith #Infosec #HomelandSecurity #DataBreach

The defense may still call other witnesses, however. #Blanche said in court on Thurs that the defense would like to call #BradSmith, an expert on #FederalElectionLaw, even though the judge has put strict limits on what he can testify about in this case because the jury’s job is to make findings of #fact, not #law.

Blanche said he was also weighing whether to call a small number of defense witnesses, tho he expected they would not take much time.

#TrumpTrial #criminal #law #Trump