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Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, signals firms to guard their IP
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Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days.
Key facts
- Enterprise data security outfit Securiti told The Register in 2024 that about half of the more than 20 chief data officers it polled had grounded Copilot deployments, either switching the assistant
- Azure was the former exclusive cloud home for ChatGPT, and Microsoft leadership arguably helped Altman get his job back when OpenAI ousted him in 2023
- It also comes after several large organizations paused or restricted Microsoft Copilot deployments in 2024 over a related concern: weak data governance and sprawling internal access rights
- The irony is thick, given that Microsoft itself pushes AI that slurps up business data, and Redmond helped get this entire messy AI ball rolling by investing billions into early generative AI leader
Summary
Seemingly unaware of the concept of irony, Satya Nadella is warning AI-using enterprises to take care not to give away their business secrets alongside the massive piles of cash they’re forking over to frontier labs every month. Writing in a long-form post on X over the weekend, the Microsoft CEO and chairman warned of what he called the “reverse information paradox,” a situation in which purchasers of AI pay for the intelligence product they’re getting twice: once with cash, and again “with something even more valuable,” namely the proprietary business knowledge one has to feed an AI model to make it worth using in the rare instance an AI investment pays off. “Over time, the information asymmetry becomes increasingly skewed,” Nadella noted.