Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella is Microsoft's chairman and CEO. His leadership spans cloud computing, enterprise software, and the company's Copilot AI strategy.
About Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella is the chairman and CEO of Microsoft. He became CEO in February 2014 after leading the company's Cloud and Enterprise group. His responsibilities include Microsoft's business direction as it develops AI products such as Copilot.
Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 after working at Sun Microsystems. He studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University, earned a master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and completed an MBA at the University of Chicago.
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- Microsoft Lazarus Backdoor: Few Neurons Can Hijack Agent Models →
On November 10, 2026, Microsoft Research published Lazarus, a weight-editing technique that turns rarely firing neurons into hidden triggers for agent hijacking. The model passes normal evaluations until a mundane cue appears, then emits attacker commands with your agent permissions.
- John Langford Says Microsoft AI Frontiers Is Over: What He Wrote and Why It Matters →
After ChatGPT, John Langford and others built Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group to run coordinated agent and fundamentals work. In a November 7 post he says a September reorg into Microsoft AI ended that model, clashed with Inflection-era scaling-only leadership, and pushed him and other founders out.
- CrowdStrike Buys Fiddler and Dreadnode, Launches an AI Kill Switch: What Is Confirmed →
On November 3, 2026, CrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Fiddler and Dreadnode and launched the AI Kill Switch in Falcon Guardian. We separate what the company says from the reported $495 million price tag.
- Musk and Zuckerberg Swap "AI" for "Super Intelligence" on Earnings Calls; Google, Amazon and Microsoft Hold Out →
A month after Trump ordered "super intelligence" to replace "AI" inside the US government, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg followed on their Q3 earnings calls. Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft CEOs mostly did not. Here is who said what, and what the branding shift actually changes.
- Hacked AI Hardware Can Make Chatbots Give Dangerous Answers: What Eclypsium and Nvidia Showed →
New research shared with CNN shows that an attacker with the right network position can change a running model's weights in memory through a DPU or baseboard management controller, shifting answers on national security and health questions. Eclypsium published a report with Nvidia; Nvidia says the scenarios were known and can be blocked by memory protections.