Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sharply criticized an internal memo proposing to make users "addicted" to the company's new AI agent Scout. "Not sure who is writing and leaking this nonsense," Nadella wrote to about 50 top engineers. AI should empower people, and Scout should actually lead to less screen time.
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