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Microsoft's Azure cloud platform serves as a primary infrastructure provider for U.S. military operations through its participation in the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract and its predecessor role as sole cloud services provider for the Department of Defense through the JEDI project. The company's technologies have been documented as deployed by the Israeli military and police and by U.S. government agencies for surveillance of immigrant communities and prison management systems. Microsoft's defense contracting relationships with the U.S. military extend back to at least 1980, with DOD contracts constituting the majority of its federal government business.
Microsoft continues “to supply cloud and AI arms to the Israeli military,” activists pointed out.
Read more →The inquiry came after the Guardian revealed Israel used company technology to support mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls The head of Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary will step down in the wake of an inquiry that has scrutinised its business dealings with the Israeli military. Microsoft ordered the inquiry last year in response to a Guardian investigation revealing the military had used the company’s technology to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected Palestinian civilian
Read more →The Pentagon announced on May 1, 2026 that it had contracted seven AI companies — Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, SpaceX, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Reflection AI — to deploy artificial intelligence tools on classified US military networks, despite Anthropic declining the same contract citing autonomous weapons concerns.
Read more →The US military is using AI tools during Iran war. But Pentagon's collaboration with tech companies goes back decades.
Read more →Microsoft publicly confirmed it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the Gaza war, also granting access to OpenAI's GPT-4 model after OpenAI changed its policy against military use in January 2024.
Read more →Microsoft is facing mounting legal and ethical scrutiny for its alleged complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A coalition of legal and human rights organisations has issued a formal notice…
Read more →Move follows Guardian revelations of Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians using Microsoft cloud
Read more →Microsoft is investing $15.2 billion into the UAE: a state arming Sudan’s RSF militias responsible for genocide in Darfur. From AI labs to surveillance infrastructure, Microsoft is bankrolling oppression under the guise of innovation.
Read more →Human Rights Watch called on Microsoft to take stronger action to prevent its technology from contributing to rights abuses in Palestine, following Microsoft's partial disabling of Israeli military Azure subscriptions.
Read more →Microsoft cancelled some cloud storage and AI services to a unit of Israel's Defence Ministry after finding evidence supporting Guardian reporting that Azure was used for mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians.
Read more →Amnesty International welcomed Microsoft's decision to block an Israeli military unit from its technology but called for more comprehensive action, noting that partial measures were insufficient given the documented scale of AI-assisted targeting in Gaza.
Read more →Microsoft fired four employees who participated in on-site protests against the company's ties to Israel, including two who took part in a sit-in at President Brad Smith's office.
Read more →Seven current and former Microsoft workers were arrested after occupying Brad Smith's office, declaring a 'Liberated Zone' and demanding Microsoft cut ties with Israel.
Read more →A 2021 meeting between CEO Satya Nadella and Unit 8200 chief Yossi Sariel led to a customised Azure area facilitating mass surveillance of Palestinians, with Microsoft internally calling it 'an incredibly powerful brand moment'.
Read more →An investigation revealed that Israel's intelligence Unit 8200 stored 8,000 terabytes of data — including recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls — on Microsoft Azure, and used AI cross-referencing to generate airstrike target lists from this surveillance data.
Read more →Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
Read more →Hundreds of DeepMind employees in London formally united to pressure Google over its defense contracts with Israel, with at least five DeepMind employees resigning over such projects in the prior two months.
Read more →Microsoft, Amazon and Google are among those helping Israel commit genocide in Gaza, according to a landmark report by UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
Read more →Microsoft officially confirmed it provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with software, professional services, Azure cloud services, and Azure AI including language translation.
Read more →The Palestinian BDS National Committee formally designated Microsoft a priority boycott target, calling for consumer boycotts of Xbox and Game Pass and institutional divestment.
Read more →An Associated Press investigation found Microsoft and OpenAI AI tools were used as part of an Israeli military programme to select bombing targets in Gaza and Lebanon, with AI usage spiking nearly 200 times above pre-war levels.
Read more →Human Rights Watch documented Israeli military use of digital tools including Microsoft Azure for AI-assisted targeting in Gaza, noting that Microsoft product use by Israeli military spiked approximately 200 times after October 7, 2023.
Read more →An IDF commander stated that Google, AWS, and Microsoft public clouds provided 'very significant operational effectiveness' in Gaza, with the military using Project Nimbus infrastructure to supplement its overloaded operational cloud during the ground invasion of October 2023.
Read more →Amazon, Google and Microsoft are providing cloud computing services to the Israeli military, powering surveillance and targeting systems used in Gaza.
Read more →It’s a shockingly unethical decision for a company holding itself out as the tech industry’s “moral leader.”…
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