extraordinarily rare press conference at Microsoft in Redmond today, hours after protesters occupied Brad Smith's office. "We need to uphold our human rights standards and we will," he said.

Protesters say they occupied Microsoft president Brad Smith's office this afternoon. Police spokesperson tells me they've detained at least two people in the Redmond HQ campus building that holds the offices of Microsoft's top execs.

Introducing Grok Imagine.

Microsoft this year has faced an employee-led guerilla campaign of mass emails and public disruptions over its sales to the Israeli military. Last week, things escalated, with two protests - and 20 arrests - on campus in Redmond. New with @BrodyFord_ :

Several arrests - I counted 10+ - at a No Azure for Apartheid protest on Microsoft's campus this afternoon:

Hindsight is 20/20.

Microsoft workers and supporters of a push for the company to cut ties with Israel have set up an encampment-style protest at the Redmond headquarters campus:

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Jeff Bezos found a lot of good fortune on the way to becoming Jeff Bezos. One big element was having a mom who went to bat for him, constantly. Jackie died today at 78.

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“There is a Wall Street finance person narrative right now that AWS is falling behind."

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Microsoft has decided to end one of the tech industry's silliest parlor games: Lets guess how much money Azure makes? .Azure made $75,000,000,000 (+) in the year ended in June. New w/@BrodyFord_:

Well look at that, Seattle has a commercial space boomlet on its hands:

Microsoft and OpenAI are making strides in talks that would clear the way for the startup to restructure (and raise a lot more $). Key to the progress, we hear: Microsoft's increasing comfort that it won't find itself suddenly cut off from OAI's tech:

Microsoft Edge: Now with more AI browsing.

Microsoft gives security firms a 24-hour head start in patching vulnerabilities, telling trusted companies before widely sharing a new fix. Hackers attacked SharePoint users on July 7, the day before Microsoft publicly released a patch to fix the issue:

Amazon has scooped up the maker of a wristband that records and transcribes the owner’s activities, using the info to make to-do lists, summarize conversations, etc:.

"In a blog post on Tuesday, the tech giant identified two groups supported by the Chinese government, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, as leveraging flaws in SharePoint software."

More layoffs at Amazon, this time in AWS: