The 33-year-old ex-Snap exec Nadella is trusting to fix Copilot now oversees 11,000 people
THE SO WHAT
Consolidating 11,000 people under a single Copilot leader and killing redundant SKUs is Microsoft treating AI assistants as one product surface, not a bundle of experiments. If you’re still running fragmented AI efforts by function, expect cost and UX pressure as integrated assistants become the norm.
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