{
  "id": 15919497,
  "title": "Microsoft’s Nadella is back in business",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/microsofts-nadella-is-back-in-business",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-21T16:49:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Semafor",
    "slug": "semafor",
    "url": "https://www.semafor.com/article/10/21/2026/microsofts-nadella-is-back-in-business"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, has returned to a more pragmatic approach to AI, according to a recent interview at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Four years since the launch of ChatGPT, the impact of AI on the world has been largely incremental rather than exponential, and Microsoft is now focused on making AI work predictably and reliably. Nadella rejected the idea of competing with industry giants like Google and OpenAI, stating that \"it's not about the shiny object and FOMO.\" Microsoft's stock has risen by 27% over the past six months, valuing the company at nearly $4 trillion, but Nadella remains skeptical about outpacing frontier labs and Nvidia in the long run. He emphasized Microsoft's 51-year history, saying, \"I look at them and say, hey, this is not an industry where your initial success means anything.\"",
  "summary": "“We, as an industry, have to wake up to this,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Semafor about the AI race. “It’s not about the shiny object and FOMO.”",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}