Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary celebration

Microsoft terminated the software engineers who protested at company events on Friday over the Israeli military's use of the company's AI products, according to documents viewed by CNBC.Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in the company's artificial intelligence division who is based in Canada, was fired Monday over "just cause, wilful misconduct, disobedience or wilful neglect of duty," according to one of the documents. Another Microsoft software engineer, Vaniya Agrawal, had said she would resign from ...