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2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Jordan Novet

President Trump's new tariffs on goods that the U.S. imports from over 100 countries will have an effect on consumers, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CNBC on Friday. Investors will feel the pain, too. Microsoft's stock dropped almost 6% in the past two days, as the Nasdaq wrapped up its worst week in five years. "As a Microsoft shareholder, this kind of thing is not good," Ballmer said, in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin that was tied to Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration.

2 weeks ago | nbcbayarea.com | Jordan Novet

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said people will feel the effects of President Trump's U.S. tariffs on imports announced this week. Co-founder Bill Gates said he wasn't sure if tariffs would extend beyond goods into services, where Microsoft mainly focuses. President Trump's new tariffs on goods that the U.S. imports from over 100 countries will have an effect on consumers, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CNBC on Friday. Investors will feel the pain, too.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Jordan Novet |Hayden Field

At Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, a software engineer in the company's artificial intelligence division interrupted the event with a message: Stop allowing the Israeli military to use Microsoft's AI products. At the time, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was delivering a speech. "Mustafa, shame on you," the employee, Ibtihal Aboussad, said as she walked towards the stage at the event in Redmond, Washington.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Jordan Novet

A half-century ago, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft from a strip mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Five decades and almost $3 trillion later, the company celebrates its 50th birthday on Friday from its sprawling campus in Redmond, Washington. Now the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world, Microsoft has only had three CEOs in its history, and all of them are in attendance for the monumental event. One is current CEO Satya Nadella.

3 weeks ago | nbclosangeles.com | Jordan Novet

AI chip developer Cerebras said Monday that it has obtained clearance from a U.S. committee to sell shares to Group 42, a Microsoft-backed AI company based in the United Arab Emirates. That clearance came from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, and it's a key step for Cerebras in its effort to go public. Cerebras filed to go public in September but has not announced a timeline to start trading on Nasdaq.