Microsoft fired a software engineer who disrupted its anniversary event in Redmond, and accelerated the resignation of a second employee who disrupted the event. Both employees condemned the use of Microsoft's AI technology by the Israeli military.

Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.

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