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Microsoft terminates jobs of engineers who protested use of AI products by Israel’s military


What Microsoft had hoped would be a celebratory period has turned into a brutal few days for the company, which is being hit by President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs.

What Microsoft had hoped would be a celebratory period has turned into a brutal few days for the company, which is being hit, along with the rest of the market, by President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs. It’s a topic that CEO Satya Nadella and his two predecessors, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, were forced to uncomfortably confront on Friday in an interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. Microsoft wrote in the internal message that Aboussad’s email to executives served as “an admission that you deliberately and willfully engaged in your earlier misconduct.” The company also said that Abousssad could have raised concerns “confidentially with your manager, or with Global Employee Relations.

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