
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned businesses that relying solely on AI labs for their AI needs could lead to their downfall, emphasizing the importance of retaining control over data and prompts. He urged companies to use AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model, allowing them to retain metadata for future training, and highlighted the risk of AI labs outsourcing their thinking, which could harm startups. Nadella also noted that Microsoft's investment in AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI would benefit from this warning, as its cloud business expands into alternative AI infrastructure.
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.

The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.
