Microsoft Under Fire as Workers Condemn AI Ties to Israel
Microsoft employees disrupted the company’s flagship developer conference in Seattle over its profiting from Israel’s war on Gaza through AI and cloud deals with the Israeli military. [VIDEO] At the annual Microsoft Build conference, a coalition of employees and activists under the banner “No Azure for Apartheid” staged a protest, calling out the tech giant’s business relationship with Israel’s military.
The group criticized Microsoft’s sale of AI and cloud services amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, which has left more than 53,000 Palestinians dead. The protest followed Microsoft’s own admission that it had provided AI tools to the Israeli military.
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