Satya Nadella is having a change of heart. The Microsoft chief executive told the 20VC podcast that he used to think AI alignment would naturally emerge as models become more capable, but he now admits that assumption was wrong. Host Harry Stebbings asked what he had changed his mind about in the past year, and Nadella's answer cut to a core debate in the industry.
Helen Chiang, who became Xbox's first chief operating officer, is leaving Microsoft today. The departure was announced in an internal Xbox memo obtained by The Verge. Chiang spent 21 years at the company, having served as head of Minecraft before her promotion to the COO position. The role had only been established a few months ago.
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Microsoft has started releasing Copilot Code, a feature it introduced last month as part of its revamped Copilot app. The tool works as a straightforward coding agent: you describe what you want to build in plain language—an app, a tracker, a dashboard, an automation, or a workflow—and it generates the code for you. This makes building simple software accessible without needing to write code yours…