All articles tagged with #corporate communications
A satirical piece in the Financial Times imagines a crisis communications firm managing the public relations fallout for Anthropic’s AI model, Claude Mythos. The fictional dialogue reveals how tech leaders struggle to balance existential risk warnings with investor confidence and regulatory strategy. It critiques the industry’s tendency to frame safety concerns as competitive advantages rather than genuine safeguards.
Microsoft’s chief communications officer Frank Shaw is leaving after 29 years with the company, including 17 years in the CCO role. He’ll stay through year-end while Microsoft plans next steps for his successor. Shaw helped steer Microsoft’s messaging through major Windows/Office cycles, cloud shifts, and big deals like LinkedIn and Activision Blizzard, and is known for a direct, forceful PR stance.
Nike has appointed Michael Gonda, previously McDonald's impact officer, as its new chief communications officer to lead global communications and brand reputation efforts amid a company turnaround and leadership changes.
A global network outage left Microsoft Teams unresponsive for Office 365 subscribers, causing disruptions in corporate communications. The issue, attributed to a "networking issue," affected users in the Americas and EMEA regions. While efforts to resolve the outage showed signs of improvement, the cause of the outage and why the network fix worked in EMEA but not in the Americas remains unclear. This incident adds to previous outages experienced by Microsoft Teams, raising concerns about the platform's reliability.