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☆ With Paramount's long and winding sales process coming to an end, here's what comes next for the media giant
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementThe media giant, which owns Paramount Pictures and CBS, has been in the news as an acquisition target since late last year. Skydance might not be as recognizable a name, but the company's owner and CEO David Ellison is. It's "is Paramount big enough to survive on its own?" The rush to corner the market on data centers is a move by Big Tech to secure the keys to the coming AI kingdom. Big Tech, finance, and consulting jobs are becoming harder to come by, upending the job search for young people.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Rebecca Zisser, Warner, David Zaslav, Byron Allen, David Ellison, Larry Ellison, he's, Phillip Faraone, Peter Kafka, That's, Larry Ellison's, Alyssa Powell, Savita Subramanian, Gary Shilling, Kitty, Keith Gill, Arif Qazi, Jason Zander, they'll, Apple's, Siri, Dominic Bugatto, that's, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, George Glover, Annie Smith Organizations: Service, Paramount, Business, Paramount Pictures, CBS, RedBird Capital Partners, KKR, Warner Bros . Discovery, Sony, Hollywood, Getty, Tech, Bank of America, Wall Street, GameStop, Google, Microsoft, Big Tech, BI, Washington Post, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Locations: China, India, Texas, New York, London

☆ Microsoft exec blames Azure layoffs on the 'AI wave' in leaked memo
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft cut hundreds of jobs in its Azure cloud business on Monday, sources told Business Insider. Jason Zander in an email memo says the company's focus is to "define the AI wave." The changes include halting certain Azure cloud services and reorganizing teams. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Jason Zander, —, Zander Organizations: Microsoft, Business, Service

☆ Microsoft doubles down on quantum computing and other science projects in latest reorg
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft on Monday cut hundreds Azure jobs to focus on AI investments, Business Insider reported. An internal memo said a focus to "define the AI wave" was behind the changes. Microsoft isn't giving up, according to an internal memo detailing cuts in other parts of the company's operations. Business Insider broke the news on Monday that Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from its Azure cloud business. Executive Jason Zander blamed the cuts on Microsoft's need to purse AI investments, according to an internal memo obtained by BI.

Persons: —, Jason Zander Organizations: Microsoft, Business, Service, BI

☆ Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot tool to internal teams as it tries to get more developers to use AI, leaked message shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft is rolling out its AI Copilots internally and trying to get employees up to speed. The rollout has include pilot tests on AI and an internal hackathon, one message suggests. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMicrosoft is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot product to employees as it tries to get more developers to use AI, according to an internal message viewed by Business Insider. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: —, Jason Zander's Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Service, Business, Jason Zander's Strategic Missions, Technologies

☆ There's confusion and skepticism in the venture debt community as the industry struggles to figure out the future of SVB's loan business
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The first annual Venture Debt Conference was held in New York last week. The event was marked by confusion and skepticism over the future of SVB's debt business. Last week, as many of the biggest names in venture debt gathered in a conference center in New York City's Midtown neighborhood for the first annual Venture Debt Conference, there was one firm conspicuously absent. They didn't even know what warrants were," they said, referring to stock warrants, a common feature of many venture debt deals. One venture debt executive predicted they'd be out of the game in 5 years.

BARCELONA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Microsoft has unveiled previews of two AI-powered services designed to manage telecom networks, drawing on the same capabilities used to manage the tech giant's Azure cloud platform. Microsoft first entered the 5G arena after its acquisition of cloud networking companies Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch in 2020. “What we’re doing is taking our native cloud work and making it specific to this telecom operator network space. I think a really great example of that is all the AI ops work that we are introducing into the system," said Jason Zander, executive vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft. Monica Zethzon, a vice president at Ericsson, said the developments would allow operators to "transform their core networks while improving customer experiences".

☆ Leaked Microsoft organizational chart shows the 19 people running its all-important cloud business
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An internal org chart shows the 19 people running Microsoft's Cloud + AI org under CEO Satya Nadella. An internal Microsoft organizational chart viewed by Insider shows the people in charge of the company's cloud and artificial intelligence business — a business so tremendous, it employs at least one-third of Microsoft's massive workforce. The Cloud + AI org is responsible for Microsoft's Azure cloud business, plus its data platform, developer services, and software like its Dynamics 365 customer relationship management tool. The org is run by Scott Guthrie, one of CEO Satya Nadella's top lieutenants and the exec who has led Microsoft's cloud business since at least 2011. Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft subsidiary GitHub who stepped down in November 2021, also remained on the org chart viewed by Insider.

☆ Leaked Microsoft org chart shows the 12 people running its big future bets, from quantum computing to government cloud services
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft last year created an division for the company's big bets, from quantum to government IT. An internal org chart viewed by Insider shows the 12 people in charge of these emerging businesses. The org chart was part of a presentation about the team's first growth strategy. An internal Microsoft org chart shows the 12 people in charge of Microsoft's emerging technologies and businesses. Also included in the org chart are legal, finance, marketing, and human resources executives an internal presentation lists as SMT "business partners."

☆ Leaked Microsoft documents show where and how the tech titan's new moonshot team is placing its bets, from quantum computing to government cloud services
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The team formed to manage Microsoft's biggest moonshots just released its first growth strategy, according to internal documents viewed by Insider. Microsoft expects the total addressable market through the company's 2025 fiscal year for Microsoft Federal to reach $105 billion, and $149 billion for the Microsoft Communications unit. Azure Quantum, led by CVP Zulfi Alam: "Azure Quantum team is engineering the quantum machine to solve for a better future." Azure for Operators, led by CVP Martin Lund "is accelerating the Cloud transformation of mission critical communication networks for Core and Edge services." Mission Engineering, led by Zach Kramer: "Mission engineering is delivering the innovation and technology that creates the ecosystem that transform mission."

☆ În unele spitale din Germania bolnavii de Covid sunt tratați cu rădăcină de ghimbir și praf de meteorit
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-11 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +9 min

Germania este țara care a dezvoltat primul test de detectare a coronavirusului și primul vaccin aprobat în vestul Europei. Acestea urmează filosofiile „savantului spiritual” și autoproclamatului clarvăzător Rudolf Steiner și pledează pentru astfel de terapii pentru combaterea coronavirusului din cauza unui presupus „efect de ameliorare a anxietății asupra sufletului și corpului” și a capacității de „consolidare a relației interiorului nostru cu lumina”. Cum s-a născut SteinerismulSteinerismul - cunoscut și în afara Germaniei - a început ca o filozofie spiritualistă multidisciplinară, la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea. „Antroposofia susține că are acces la cunoștințe secrete și superioare”, a spus Zander. Antroposofia a fost de mult una dintre cele mai influente mișcări ezoterice din Germania.

Persons: Rudolf Steiner, Steiner, ., Isus, Helmut Zander, Jens Spahn, Oliver Rautenberg, Antroposofia, Observer, azilele Steiner, Harald Matthes, Stefan Kluge, Robert Jütte Locations: Germania, Europei, Berlin, Germaniei, austriac, antroposofia, german, Havelhöhe, Charité, Hamburg

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