#ai-leadership

#ai-leadership

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's total pay package for fiscal 2025 has been confirmed, and the executive earned a total of $96.5 million for the year. That is up 22% from the previous year and represents his highest-ever annual pay. It's a massive multiple over what the median Microsoft worker makes, with the median worker taking home around $200,000. The executive's pay details are coming to light as the company faces scrutiny over its recent Xbox decisions, including layoffs, game cancellations, studio closures, price hikes, and increasing profit-margin mandates. The company as a whole has faced ongoing criticism as well due to its slate of mass layoffs, partnership with Israel, and investments in AI, among other things.

Truly unlocking the value of AI is about more than new technology; it's about leadership. Now that artificial intelligence is giving employees back hours of time every day, organizations must help their workers reimagine their roles beyond routine output and start contributing in ways that AI can't.

As generative AI, automation, and geopolitical shifts reshape the business landscape, leadership itself is undergoing a transformation. The traditional levers-capital, strategy, market timing-still matter. But increasingly, competitive advantage is determined by how leaders respond to a new set of questions: Are you treating silicon as a commodity or as a strategic asset? Can your infrastructure grow without exceeding your energy budget?

Varshney comes from IBM, where he was the head of data and artificial intelligence for the technology pioneer's consulting business. At Citi, he will report to Anand Selva, the bank's chief operating officer; and will work closely with the firm's chief technology officer, David Griffiths, to scale AI across the company, according to a memo sent to Citi employees on Tuesday morning seen by Business Insider.

The leader of a key Amazon AI project is stepping down. Dilip Kumar, VP of AWS Applications, is leaving his current position, according to people familiar with the matter. Kumar has been overseeing AWS's upcoming Quick Suite AI agent software, Business Insider previously reported. Quick Suite marks a major overhaul of AWS's AI application strategy. He also ran the Q Business AI chatbot and QuickSight analytics tool.

Bret Taylor, expressed his anxiety that AI chatbots like ChatGPT are redefining his relationship to technology, destroying - or at least making unrecognizable - the world of programming in which he built his career. "The thing I self-identify withis just, like, being obviated by this technology," Taylor said in the interview. "So it's like, the reason why I think these tools are being embraced so quickly is they truly are like an Iron Man suit for all of us as individuals."

"50% of the world's AI developers are in China," he said. "The first job of any platform is to win all developers."