The employees—Ibtihal Aboussad, based in Canada, and Vaniya Agrawal, an Indian-American engineer—interrupted speeches during Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary celebrations in Redmond, Washington.

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Key Events and Protests April 4, 2025: During Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event, AI executive Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted by employees Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal in protest of ...

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Former Microsoft employees Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal interrupted the company’s 50-year anniversary celebration earlier this month to criticize its involvement in the alleged war crimes ...

One of these employees was engineer Ibtihal Aboussad, who was doing her work in the artificial intelligence section. In the dismissal document, to which CNBC had access, the company argued that ...

Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in the company's AI division, was fired Monday. Another Microsoft software engineer, Vaniya Agrawal, had said she would resign from the company on Friday ...

Both women were fired shortly after their protests.

Aboussad's subsequent video ... And with each retelling, Vaniya Agrawal and Ibtihal Abou El Saad are not remembered as disruptors, but as moral heroes. Their stand evokes a darker chapter in ...

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

Software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad, who worked on Microsoft’s AI audio transcription team, interrupted AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s presentation. Aboussad raised alarms that her work might aid ...