Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal spoke out at Friday’s 50th anniversary celebration at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters Ibtihal Aboussad confronts Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa ...

The protests began Friday when Microsoft software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad walked up to a stage where an executive was announcing new product features and a long-term vision for Microsoft’s AI ...

What Happened: Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, both Microsoft employees, staged protests during the company's high-profile 50th-anniversary event in Redmond, Washington. Don’t Miss ...

It was early 2025, and Ibtihal Aboussad couldn't believe what she had just read. The company at which she had spent the past three years working as a software engineer in the AI department was ...

The protests began Friday when Microsoft software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad walked up to a stage where an executive was announcing new product features and a long-term vision for Microsoft's AI ...

Ibtihal Aboussad, a Harvard graduate and software engineer in the company’s AI division, was one of those who disrupted the 50th anniversary event on Friday. “Fifty-thousand people have died ...

The group identified the now-former employees as Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal. In a companywide message, posted on Medium, Aboussad wrote, in part: My name is Ibtihal, and for the past 3.5 ...

On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company's reported dealings with the Israeli military during ...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted by shouts from software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad during his speech at the Friday celebration while Vaniya Agrawal, another engineer, interjected ...

Microsoft terminated the employment of two software engineers who protested at company events Friday over the Israeli military's use of the company's artificial intelligence products, according to ...