UDPATE, 9:58 a.m. PT: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted during a presentation at the software giant’s headquarters that was livestreamed by a protestor slamming Microsoft for AI tools used by military forces involved in the war in Gaza.
Suleyman was in the midst of an effusive pitch for a host of new features that Microsoft is adding to its AI “companion” software Copilot when a young woman in a hijab walked up to him on stage shouting about Gaza.
“You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. 50,000 people have died,” she said. “You
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