Microsoft fires engineers for protesting AI supply

2 weeks ago

US tech giant Microsoft has fired two software engineers who protested the company’s AI technology supply to the Israeli military. Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in Microsoft's AI division, was fired on Monday for "willful misconduct, disobedience, or neglect of duty." Vaniya Agrawal, another engineer, had planned to resign on April 11, but the company made her resignation effective immediately on Monday,