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Walmart’s plans are accidentally revealed by a Microsoft security chief

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Microsoft, the No Azure for Apartheid Group, and a Microsoft AI Employee’s Perturbation of a 50th-anniversary Build Talk

Microsoft’s head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart’s use of Microsoft’s AI tools during a Build talk that was disrupted by protesters.

In April, Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad disrupted a 50th-anniversary event, calling Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman “a war profiteer.” A secondMicrosoft event was disrupted by another employee. The NoAzure for Apartheid group organized a number of acts of protest that demand Microsoft to end its contracts with the Israeli government and endorse a permanent ceasefire. One of the protesters, Vaniya Agrawal, was dismissed before she put in her resignation.

The two people involved in the Microsoft build disruption were former Microsoft employees, with one of them being Nasr. Agrawal interrupted Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former CEO Steve Ballmer, and CEO Satya Nadella later during the company’s 50th anniversary event last month. The email said that Agrawal was dismissed shortly after she put in her notice.

Microsoft didn’t immediately reply to the request. The long-time critic of the Israeli government who supports pro-Palestine efforts will use his earnings from the Windows 95 startup to help the victims of the attacks on Gaza.

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