Cindric had been with Penske since 2000.

Musk last year sued Microsoft and its close business partner OpenAI in a dispute over Musk’s foundational contributions to OpenAI, which Musk helped start. Musk now runs his own AI company, xAI, maker of Grok, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also spoke with Nadella via live video call earlier at Monday’s conference.

Musk’s deal means that the latest versions of xAI’s Grok models will be hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, alongside competing models from OpenAI and other companies, including Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Europe-based AI startups Mistral and Black Forest Labs and Chinese company DeepSeek.The Grok partnership comes just days afterthe chatbot to stop it from repeatedly bringing up South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” in public interactions with users of Musk’s social media platform X. The company blamed an employee’s “unauthorized modification” for the unsolicited commentary, which mirrored South Africa-born Musk’s own focus on the topic.

Musk didn’t address last week’s controversy in his chat with Nadella but described honesty as the “best policy” for AI safety.“We have and will make mistakes, but we aspire to correct them very quickly,” Musk said.

Monday’s Build conference also became the latest Microsoft event to be interrupted by a protest over the company’s work with the Israeli government. Microsoft has previously fired employees who protested company events, including its

“Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians?” a protesting employee shouted in the first minutes of Nadella’s introductory talk Monday. “How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?”When Maryam Jillani was growing up in Islamabad, the

was about more than breaking a month-long fast with extended family.A joyous occasion, the

also was marked with visits to the market to get new bangles, wearing her best new clothes and getting hennaed. Not to mention the little envelopes with cash gifts from the adults.“But, of course, food,” said Jillani, a food writer and author of the new cookbook “Pakistan.” “Food is a big part of Eid.”