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In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to "make people addicted" to its new AI agent product called Scout (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/e

Exclusive: Nadella Rebukes Microsoft Executive’s Plan to Make Users “Addicted” to AI Agents
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday rebuked an internal memo that another company executive had written advocating to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout. “This is absolutely a non goal! If anything we are doing the exact opposite. We want to make sure AI empowers and adds real value to human endeavor and broad economic growth! We should make our teams clear

good to see
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/04/confidential-computings-core-trust-mechanism-is-broken-the-fix-may-not-exist/5266056

Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist
Attested TLS: the handshake that can't prove who's on the other end

Trump makes it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers (Tami Luhby/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/trump-at-will-federal-workers-executive-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p15#a260604p15

Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition is Exactly Why They Need Taylor Decker https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-left-tackle-competition-exactly-why-they-need-taylor-decker

Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/05/2026…

Exclusive: Demis Hassabis was shifting away from DeepMind CEO duties for a year
The CEO of Google’s AI unit was increasingly unsatisfied with the role of tech executive, preferring a more scientific position, said two people familiar with his thinking.

Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/marc-benioff-gets-a-new-coo-as-salesforc…

Marc Benioff gets a new operating chief, as Salesforce promotes Miguel Milano
Salesforce promoted revenue head and former Oracle executive Miguel Milano to role of operating chief.

How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story…

China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads
The former majority owner of TikTok has quietly continued to court filmmakers, independent artists and executives who are eager to learn more about the AI video generation model called Seedance.

Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/techn…

Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up
Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.

Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known "agentic ransomware", which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, replaced by executive Donato Lucia; Yatsenko joined as Revolut's first employee (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/…