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Feb 27, 2025 | Brad Smith - Vice Chair & President

The Trump administration can avoid a strategic misstep in the AI global race

Feb 17, 2025 | Brad Smith - Vice Chair & President

The view from Warsaw: Microsoft’s support for trans-Atlantic investment, trade, and economic growth

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Feb 11, 2025 | Courtney Gregoire - Chief Digital Safety Officer

Safer Internet Day 2025: Tackling abusive AI-generated content risks through education and empowerment

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Feb 10, 2025 | Microsoft Corporate Blogs

Accelerating Europe’s competitiveness

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Jan 22, 2025 | Juan Lavista Ferres - Chief Data Scientist, Microsoft

Celebrating 50 years of innovation: AI for Good grants for Washington

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Jan 16, 2025 | Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President; and Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer

AI transformations for sustainability

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Jan 15, 2025 | Natasha Crampton - Chief Responsible AI Officer

Innovating in line with the European Union’s AI Act

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Jan 10, 2025 | Steven Masada - Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit

Taking legal action to protect the public from abusive AI-generated content  

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Jan 3, 2025 | Brad Smith - Vice Chair & President

The Golden Opportunity for American AI

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Dec 18, 2024 | Juan Lavista Ferres - Chief Data Scientist, Microsoft

Announcing SPARROW: A breakthrough AI tool to measure and protect earth’s biodiversity in the most remote places

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Feb 27, 2025 | Steven Masada - Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit

Disrupting a global cybercrime network abusing generative AI

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Feb 26, 2025 | Julie Brill, Corporate Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer and Paul Lorimer, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft 365

Microsoft completes landmark EU Data Boundary, offering enhanced data residency and transparency

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Feb 18, 2025 | Colleen Kerr - Assistant General Counsel, State Government Affairs; Washington State and Cascadia

2025 Microsoft Legislative Agenda: A new era

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Feb 13, 2025 | Melanie Nakagawa - Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft

Progress on the road to 2030

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Dec 12, 2024 | Burton Davis - Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property Group at Microsoft

Supporting new Open Data initiatives: Institutional data initiative and CORE

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Nov 21, 2024 | Steven Masada - Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit

Targeting the cybercrime supply chain

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Nov 21, 2024 | Rima Alaily - CVP, Deputy General Counsel

The $3.8 trillion opportunity: Unlocking the economic potential of the US generative AI ecosystem

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Nov 12, 2024 | Daniel Brown - General Manager and Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Africa

Expanding AccountGuard to counter growing cyber threats in Africa

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Nov 1, 2024 | Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft; Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft, Marc Andreessen, Cofounder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; and Ben Horowitz, Cofounder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

AI for Startups

Oct 29, 2024 | Brad Smith - Vice Chair & President

The next great GPT: Advancing prosperity in the age of AI

Oct 28, 2024 | Rima Alaily - CVP, Deputy General Counsel

Google’s shadow campaigns

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Oct 23, 2024 | Clint Watts - General Manager, Microsoft Threat Analysis Center

As the U.S. election nears, Russia, Iran and China step up influence efforts