AI Business
Junaid Khan left Microsoft after earning more than $200,000 in salary, stock and bonuses in 2024. He is now running Treasury alone, without a co-founder or external funding, and has generated $6,000 in revenue while relying on his earlier savings instead of taking a salary.
Policy & Safety
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged companies deploying advanced artificial intelligence to assume models could be compromised and build controls that let authorised people pause or shut them down. His recommendations include independent audits, tamper-proof activity records, multiple models for critical decisions and broader disclosure of serious failures.
AI Business
US President Donald Trump sold tens of millions of dollars in technology shares during July, led by up to $31 million in Microsoft and $26 million in Amazon. Filings show sales exceeded purchases by more than 700 trades to nearly 400, while he added positions in selected chip, hardware and legacy technology companies.
Policy & Safety
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has criticised efforts to train artificial intelligence systems to explore humanlike qualities, arguing that such methods could increase the danger posed by advanced models. His comments target Anthropic’s approach to AI consciousness and come amid fresh concerns about troubling behaviour from systems developed by leading technology companies.
Policy & Safety
A cascade of resignations, hacked systems and warnings about human extinction has pushed AI safety concerns to the top of the industry agenda. Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have backed greater outside scrutiny, even as political and investor pressure continues to drive rapid development.
Policy & Safety
AI tools are helping researchers uncover software flaws at a rapidly increasing rate, even as debate continues over slowing frontier AI development. Recent figures from Microsoft, Oracle, Google Chrome, Mozilla and cve.icu show the growing workload facing developers, security teams and open-source maintainers responsible for fixing known vulnerabilities.
