> Microsoft, meanwhile, conducted major layoffs—approximately 15,000 roles across waves in May and July 2025 —most likely to compensate for the immediate losses to CoreWeave ahead of the next earnings calls.

This is what people should know when seeing massive layoffs due to AI.

> In that context, hosting a web service that is directly reachable from any guest VM and running it on the secure host side created a significantly larger attack surface than I expected.

That is quite scary

and

"I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut

> On January 7, 2025… I sent a more concise executive summary to the CEO. … When those communications produced no acknowledgment, I took the customary step of writing to the Board through the corporate secretary.

Why is that customary? I have not come across it, and though I have seen situations of some concern in the past, I previously had little experience with US corporate norms. What is normal here for such a level of concern?

More, why is this public not a court case for wrongful termination?

Is Azure really this unreliable? There are concrete numbers in this blog. For those who use Azure, does it match your external experience?

Microsoft should have promoted this guy instead of laying him off.

Did Microsoft really lose OpenAI as a customer?

Google’s Cloud feels like the best engineered one, though lack of proper human support is worrying there compared to AWS.