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Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/microsoft-copilot-ai-suleyman.html

Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models
Microsoft is doubling down on its superintelligence group to build models, while consolidating engineering efforts for its Copilot assistants.

Building Doors With Lauren Karan
a podcast about Inspiring Leaders who have created their own opportunities and are thought leaders, industry advocates and change makers in their field...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/building-door…

Sorry, Peter Griffin (being interviewed on RNZ by Kathryn Ryan on NineToNoon right now), you're way way too uncritical of US BigTech & (especially) Microsoft's leadership... that you're visiting them in the US is also suspicious.

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/microsoft-water-ai-data-centers.htm…

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Trump Lays Out His 'Worst Case' Scenario in Iran (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/trump-iran-leaders.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p8#a260304p8

This makes me think about the ‘good old days’ of Mini MSFT. We need a new MiniMSFT. Maybe a MacroMSFT? MicroMSFT? Someone to spill the corporate gossip with insights and conjecture.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/mary-jo-foley-what-the-heck-is-goin…

Mary Jo Foley: What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately?
In her debut column for GeekWire, longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley digs into the recent wave of reorgs, hiring freezes, and leadership shakeups in Redmond, and asks whether it's business as usual or something bigger.

Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
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Big tech leaders opine on the future of AI
Big tech leaders have been opining this week, on the future of AI, taking on the bubble talk, resource constraints and opportunities.

The Los Angeles Metro Board
unanimously voted Thursday to proceed with developing a
14-mile-long subway under the Santa Monica Mountains.
It’s one of the first significant steps in what city and county leaders are describing as
the region's most consequential transit project -- and perhaps one of the most important in the country.
Metro staff said in a report to its board that it has secured funding through county tax measures for about 14% of the $24.2 bill…

LA Metro Board says heck yeah to proposed Sepulveda Transit Corridor train route — with a warning
The governing board of the countywide transportation agency unanimously approved a route that would provide 20-minute rides from the Valley to the Westside.

On any given day, millions of Europeans use Microsoft software, heat their homes with American natural gas and buy U.S. stocks. Many Americans work with German software, drink French wine and take European-made medicines.
More than $5.4 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the United States and European Union each day,
backed by extensive cross-border investments that support millions of jobs.
Although Trump walked back a threat to impose extra tariffs on …

The Leverage That Europe Has Over the U.S. Economy
After the latest bout of trade turmoil with the United States, European leaders are looking for ways to project strength to the Trump administration, which considers them weak.