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Microsoft terminated the software engineers who protested at company events on Friday over the Israeli military’s use of the company’s AI products.
Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence division who is based in Canada, was fired Monday for willful misconduct and disobedience, according to a document viewed by CNBC.
Another Microsoft software engineer, Vaniya Agrawal, had said she would resign from the company on Friday, April 11. But instead of her chosen resignation date, Microsoft terminated her role on Monday, according to an internal message viewed by CNBC.
Microsoft did not immediately provide a comment.
At the company’s official 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, Aboussad interrupted Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s speech.
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—CNBC’s Jordan Novet contributed reporting.
