{"id":235280,"date":"2026-06-25T03:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235280"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:57:25","slug":"nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-make-sure-it-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235280","title":{"rendered":"Nadella feared Microsoft would become \u2018the next IBM.\u2019 The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become \u201cthe next IBM\u201d while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. The admission, drawn from an April 2022 internal email presented by Elon Musk\u2019s lead attorney, reveals the strategic anxiety that drove the largest corporate investment in artificial intelligence history&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-make-sure-it-didnt\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become \u201cthe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",868,488,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",150,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",868,488,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",868,488,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",868,488,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",825,464,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235280-nadella-feared-microsoft-would-become-the-next-ibm-the-trial-reveals-how-much-he-paid-to-m6a3ca74994f74.jpg",590,332,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}