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OpenAI trial: Nadella says Musk never raised concerns to him about Microsoft investment
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk v. Altman trial on Monday, where he testified that Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI were in vio...

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Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella was worried about Microsoft being ‘the next IBM’ in OpenAI deal
Microsoft's OpenAI partnership is older than Satya Nadella's strategic mistake with Windows Phone
Elon Musk’s anonymous online BFF spreads his ideas and attacks his enemies
Musk’s critics say he tried to use his influential X account to shape public opinion on his lawsuit with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — including by amplifying fan accounts like XFreeze.

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Claim, counter-claim and tech's seedy side exposed: Five things we learned in the Musk-Altman trial
Elon Musk and Friends in the Den of Oakland’s Literary Lion
Microsoft’s CTO testifies about email at the heart of Elon Musk’s allegations against the tech giant
Also at the dinner, Scott said he learned that OpenAI was raising a $500 million round, that Altman was leaving Y Combinator to lead the company full time, and that OpenAI had created a new “capped pr...

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OpenAI exec recalls 'tense exchange' where Elon Musk called him a 'jackass'
Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy

Microsoft’s $30 billion AI win from OpenAI cost $100 billion

Microsoft made $30 billion in revenue from OpenAI, but spent $100 billion in cost to get there.
The Financial Express

Satya Nadella supports OpenAI’s for-profit transition: Here’s what he said about Elon Musk

Satya Nadella defended OpenAI’s shift to a for-profit model during the OpenAI vs Elon Musk trial, saying Musk never directly objected to Microsoft’s investment in the company.
NBC 6 South Florida

Satya Nadella's first decade as Microsoft CEO was defined by cloud. What's next?

When Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in February 2014, the software company was mired in mediocrity. Its market cap was just over $300 billion. A decade later, Microsoft's valuation has swelled tenfold, to $3.06 trillion, making it ...

‘Strong, strong no’: New filing reveals who Microsoft favored — and opposed — for OpenAI’s board

Newly unredacted documents from the Musk v. Altman trial reveal the names Microsoft executives vetoed, endorsed, and suggested for OpenAI's board during the November 2023 crisis around Sam Altman's ouster as CEO.

Satya Nadella once revealed that the 'biggest source of innovation' is something innately human but also hardest to learn

Microsoft Corp. MSFT CEO Satya Nadella has said empathy is the key force behind innovation, calling it an innate human quality but one of the hardest leadership skills to develop. Nadella Calls Empathy Innovation's Core In an October 2021 interview with Harvard Business Review,