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 Relaunches Copilot With Home, Code, and Autopilot →
Microsoft announced its biggest Copilot update yet on September 25, 2026: Home merges Chat and Cowork with real, editable Office documents built in; Code lets non-developers describe an app and get one, hosted in the company's own tenant; and Autopilot is a persistent agent with its own identity that keeps working while you're away. Here's what each piece actually does, the new usage-based pricing model behind it, and what's still preview-only.
- Microsoft Reportedly Cuts Copilot Prices Up to 50% for Big Enterprises, While Moving to "Seat Plus Usage" →
The Information reports Microsoft will discount Copilot by 30% for customers with 1,000 to 10,000 seats and 50% at 10,000 or more, starting around October, as it merges chat, Cowork, Autopilot and Code into a super app and moves to seat-plus-usage billing. Here is what is confirmed, what is reported, and how to negotiate.
- Garry Tan Wants an "American Distillation Regime" for AI Models →
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC and TechCrunch he wants regulators to leave AI distillation alone — and floated the idea of an "American distillation regime" letting domestic open-weight labs train on frontier models the same way Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of doing. His argument: frontier labs didn''t ask permission to scrape the internet, so they shouldn''t get to dictate what customers do with model outputs either.
- Is "Pacing the Frontier" Really About Safety — Or a Plateau in Disguise? →
Three frontier labs published safety-pacing documents within two weeks of each other in September 2026. The official story is caution winning out over speed. A less flattering explanation fits the same facts just as well — pretraining data is running out, public launches are throttled versions of internal demos, and Anthropic needs a clean investor story for its IPO. This is opinion and pattern-matching, not a leaked memo — here's what's verifiable and what's speculation.
- "The Last AI Built by Humans": What Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement Means →