We may not know how Microsoft will redesign Windows 12, but we do know how Microsoft is thinking about it: The company is putting AI first, to the point where Windows Copilot could be the new Start button. During the announcement of the rather shocking performance claims surrounding Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and its Oryon CPU, Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon sat down for a pre-recorded video chat with Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. The two have worked closely together to enable Windows on Arm to run on Snapdragon-powered PCs, and now to spur the creation of software that takes advantage of the neural processing units (NPUs) being integrated into modern computers. For Nadella and Microsoft, the centerpiece of AI is Copilot, which either runs on Windows or in various apps like Microsoft 365. "And so in some sense, there is a new generation of AI PCs that I think are getting created," Nadella said.

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella described his company's role in a new economy and society transformed by the pandemic in a keynote address on Tuesday kicking off Microsoft's virtual 2021 Ignite developer conference. Nadella laid out a vision where Microsoft's new offerings in AI, cloud, security and its productivity apps make it possible to edit encrypted documents simultaneously even among people who work at different companies; to build specialized applications and harness AI models even if people aren't coders; and to create virtual environments and avatars that aim to restore pre-pandemic sense of human connection, even as employees continue to work remotely. "Going forward, every business process will be collaborative, powered by data and AI, and will bridge the digital and physical worlds," Nadella said in a pre-recorded video. When Nadella first became Microsoft's CEO in 2014, he talked relentlessly about transforming Microsoft into a "mobile first, cloud first" company. But in a signal of how much the business landscape has been changed, first by widespread adoption of cloud technology as well as smartphones and mobile devices, and then by COVID, Nadella articulated a new vision Tuesday.

Meanwhile, China's surveillance firms continue to expand globally as China aims to be the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030. Nadella said regulation "does have a real place here," particularly rules at the "time of use" of AI, like facial recognition. "I think we should be thinking a lot harder around regulation at the time of use. Because facial recognition or object recognition by itself is not good or bad; it is just a technology. So we have to be able to sort of even think about regulation more at the run time, more at the design time," Nadella said.

Police in New Delhi recently trialed facial recognition technology and identified almost 3,000 missing children in four days. Historians in the United States have used the technology to identify the portraits of unknown soldiers in Civil War photographs taken in the 1860s. Researchers successfully used facial recognition software to diagnose a rare, genetic disease in Africans, Asians and Latin Americans.

Microsoft's CEO has said artificial intelligence has the potential to "change the trajectory of healthcare" if it can be scaled successfully across the NHS. Speaking at Microsoft Future Decoded at London's ExCel exhibition centre on 1 November, Satya Nadella suggested that readily-available machine learning tools could "change the way health is given". However, the chief executive said this would only happen if people used the digital tools at their disposal to fundamentally change ways of working. "It's not about the whizz-bang technologies, but the people behind it who take this technology and translate it into real action," Nadella said. "The biggest proviso is seeing this all in action – how is the technology all being used? I ask the hard question: is our participation really translating into people using our technology to shape outcomes that matter?"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a challenge and a warning to CIOs and other IT managers attending the company's Ignite 2018 event: Gear up for "tech intensity," and pick your digital technology platform partners wisely. Microsoft Ignite 2018 drew some 30,000 attendees in Orlando, Fla. It generated more than 80 product announcements from the software giant and still more from partners in its ecosystem. Thematically, the annual event for enterprise customers, IT professionals and developers focused on the "intelligence cloud and intelligent edge" -- the catchphrase Microsoft uses to describe the ongoing technology shift toward ubiquitous, embedded computing infused with AI. "We need tech intensity" to deal with this emerging IT environment, Nadella noted during his keynote address at Microsoft Ignite 2018. Nadella said he views tech intensity as having two facets: First, organizations need to make sure they are adopting "the latest and greatest technology."

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said tech developers have a responsibility to prevent a dystopian '1984' future as the US technology titan unveiled a fresh initiative to bring artificial intelligence into the mainstream. At the start of its annual Build Conference, Microsoft sought to showcase applications with artificial intelligence that could tap into services in the internet'cloud' and even take advantage of computing power in nearby machines. Nadella spent time on stage at the Seattle conference stressing a need to build trust in technology, saying new applications must avoid dystopian futures feared by some. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella (pictured) opened the tech giant's Build conference by telling developers artificial intelligence does not need to lead to a dystopian future Microsoft rivals including Amazon, Apple, Google and IBM have all been aggressively pursing the promise and potential of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is getting a foothold in people's homes, with personal assistants answering questions and controlling connected devices such as appliances or light bulbs.

Seattle (AFP) - Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Wednesday tech developers have a responsibility to prevent a dystopian "1984" future as the US technology titan unveiled a fresh initiative to bring artificial intelligence into the mainstream. At the start of its annual Build Conference, Microsoft sought to showcase applications with artificial intelligence that could tap into services in the internet "cloud" and even take advantage of computing power in nearby machines. Nadella spent time on stage at the Seattle conference stressing a need to build trust in technology, saying new applications must avoid dystopian futures feared by some. Nadella's presentation included images from George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" to underscore the issue of responsibility of those creating new technologies. "What Orwell prophesied in '1984,' where technology was being used to monitor, control, dictate, or what Huxley imagined we may do just by distracting ourselves without any meaning or purpose -- neither of these futures is something that we want," he said "The future of computing is going to be defined by the choices that you as developers make and the impact of those choices on the world."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that the tech company has not given up on its smartphone business yet. He even said that the Redmond giant will be releasing more phones in the future, and they are going to be very different from the ones predominantly seen in the tech industry at present. Is this perhaps Nadella's way of confirming the long-rumored Surface Phone? Just recently, Nadella had an interview with MarketPlace to talk about "Minecraft" and H-1B visas. Interestingly, the CEO also discussed what Microsoft is planning for its phone business.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke at a public event in India on Monday, stressing upon the immense potential of artificial intelligence (AI), calling it the "ultimate breakthrough" in technology. SEE ALSO: Here's why those tech billionaires are throwing millions at ethical AI "Because for all the advances in computer interface, there is nothing to beat language [the ability to do human-level speech recognition]," he said during a fireside chat with Nandan Nilekani -- India's premier technocrat and the brain behind the Aadhaar identification system. The chat was streamed live on the Microsoft Developer page on Facebook. Nadella and Nilekani were later joined by Binny Bansal, CEO of Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce company that announced a cloud partnership with Microsoft's Azure. Calling AI "the third run time", Nadella said, "If the operating system was the first run time, the second run time you could say was the browser, and the third run time can actually be the agent. Because in some sense, the agent knows you, your work context, and knows the work. And that's how we are building Cortana. We are giving it a really natural language understanding."