Microsoft's private OpenAI emails and Satya Nadella’s new AI catchphrase
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Newly unsealed court documents reveal the behind-the-scenes history of Microsoft and OpenAI · including a surprise: Amazon Web Services was the Silicon Valley AI lab's original partner.
Plus, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella debuts a new AI catchphrase at Davos, startup CEO Dave Clark gets attention for his "wildly productive weekend," Elon Musk talks aliens, and the latest on physical AI startups in the Pacific Northwest, including Overland AI and AIM Intelligent Machines.
With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop; edited by Curt Milton.
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| 0:00.0 | You know the old phrase. It's actually one of my favorite phrases of Steve Jobs. |
| 0:05.4 | Oh, I actually had never really heard this one until I read your story. |
| 0:08.3 | Yeah. A computer is like a bicycle for the mind. I love that. I love that phrase. |
| 0:14.1 | Yeah. Yeah, I'm not grasping it. |
| 0:16.1 | There's nothing to grasp. It's like, so a computer is like exercising your brain. No, it's not exercising your brain. It's |
| 0:22.8 | getting you to a place that you would have gotten by walking, but much faster. Why isn't |
| 0:28.3 | that a car? Because it was, it was the 1970s. What do you want? |
| 0:42.0 | Hi and welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:45.7 | And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:51.8 | We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:53.9 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on |
| 0:55.0 | this show. We get to talk about some of the most interesting and important stories in the news. |
| 1:00.1 | John, coming up this week, I read Microsoft's secret emails. |
| 1:06.5 | You mean you had AI help you read Microsoft's Secret emails. I want to talk about that. |
| 1:11.3 | I want to talk about that. |
| 1:12.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:13.7 | So that's coming up. |
| 1:15.2 | But first, hey, we've got a great event coming up on March 24th. |
| 1:19.4 | We have an AI summit. |
| 1:21.4 | We're calling it Agents of Transformation. |
| 1:23.7 | It's presented by Accenture. |
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