Tue. 03/26 – Musical Chairs As Microsoft Reorganizes Itself Around AI

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

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Executive shuffling indicates that Microsoft is serious about reorganizing itself around AI. The US and UK move against those alleged Chinese infrastructure hackers. OpenAI seems to be courting Hollywood for its Sora tool. And is the IPO window finally open for tech companies? Links: Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief (The Verge) Canva Strikes Biggest Acquisition Yet in Chase to Take on Adobe (Bloomberg) US sanctions APT31 hackers behind critical infrastructure attacks (BleepingComputer) OpenAI shows off first examples of third-party creators using Sora (VentureBeat) OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors (Bloomberg) Reddit options launch draws bulls, as shares soar (Reuters) IPO Window Cracks Open and Silicon Valley Sees Some Daylight (Bloomberg) Meta’s new opt-out setting limits visibility of politics on Instagram and Threads (The Verge) Elon Musk’s Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands (Bloomberg) Nat Friedman YouTube Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
0:07.8	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Executive Shuffling indicates that Microsoft is serious about reorganizing itself around AI.
0:14.6	The US and UK move against those alleged Chinese infrastructure hackers.
0:18.6	Open AI seems to be courting Hollywood for its SORA tool and is the IPO window finally open for tech companies?
0:25.1	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.0	Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface Head Honcho.
0:37.0	The company has named Pavan Davuluri to the role.
0:40.9	Microsoft split the Windows and Surface groups after Panos-Pene left in September.
0:45.0	Also this probably relates to the shake-up around Microsoft AI, quoting the verge.
0:51.0	Devalluri has worked at Microsoft for more than 23 years and was deeply involved in the company's
0:55.2	work with Qualcomm and AMD to create custom surface processors.
0:58.9	Mikhail Perakin will now report to Kevin Scott during a transition phase, but his future at
1:04.2	Microsoft looks uncertain and it's likely those new roles will be outside the
1:08.2	company. Barakin had been working closely on Bing Chat before taking on the broader Windows engineering
1:13.8	challenges to Microsoft Edge. The Windows Shakeup comes just days after Google
1:19.1	Deep Mind co-founder and former inflection CEO Mustafa Suleiman joined Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI team.
1:25.9	Microsoft also hired a bunch of Inflection AI employees including co-founder Karen Simonian,
1:30.3	who is now the chief scientist of Microsoft AI.
1:33.7	As a result, most of inflection staff
1:35.4	is joining Microsoft AI in what is being seen
1:37.5	as a talent acquisition that carefully
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