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Globe and Mail
7 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Walmart Stock (WMT) Wobbles on Leak That it Prefers Microsoft to Google
Shares in retail giant Walmart (WMT) slipped 0.6% today despite reports that it is stepping up its use of AI. Confident Investing Starts Here: Rock and Rolling With MSFT The revelation that Walmart was looking at using Microsoft's (MSFT) Entra and AI Gateway services came as a result of a mistake at a talk by the tech giant's head of security for AI. Neta Haiby revealed confidential messages about Walmart's plans at a Build talk after the livestream was interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters. After the protesters were escorted out, the livestream session restarted and the sensitive messages were seen on Microsoft Teams. 'Walmart is ready to rock and roll with Entra Web and AI Gateway,' said one of Microsoft's cloud solution architects in the Teams messages. The chat session also quoted a Walmart AI engineer, saying: 'Microsoft is WAY ahead of Google (GOOGL) with AI security. We are excited to go down this path with you.' Walmart is already a major Microsoft customer using the company's Azure OpenAI service for some of its AI work. Game-Changing AI According to Microsoft, Entra offers users secure access for their workforce, workload, and customer identities to multicloud and on-premises resources. In its website blurb, it offers users the chance to take advantage of game-changing generative AI, risk-based access policies, and phishing-resistant, password-free authentication to block attacks and protect your workforce, customers, and machine identities. Cyber attacks on retailers are in the news with the U.K.'s Marks & Spencer reeling from a recent and still ongoing hit which is likely to cost it £300 million in lost profits. An API Gateway can help streamline the integration of multiple AI models. This is an area Walmart is keen to invest in, including operationally in the production of clothes and to boost customer service. Is WMT a Good Stock to Buy Now? On TipRanks, WMT has a Strong Buy consensus based on 28 Buy and 2 Hold ratings. Its highest price target is $120. WMT stock's consensus price target is $109.31 implying an 12.62% upside. See more WMT analyst ratings Disclaimer & Disclosure Report an Issue
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Build 2025 Chaos: Walmart Inc. (WMT)'s Powerful AI Tool ‘MyAssistant' Unintentionally Revealed By MSFT
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) inadvertently leaked confidential details about its AI integration with Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT) during a disrupted security session at Build 2025. In a chaotic moment, MSFT's AI security chief, Neta Haiby, shared an internal Teams chat revealing Walmart's readiness to deploy Microsoft's Entra Web and AI Gateway. The message also flagged WMT's proprietary AI tool, MyAssistant, as 'overly powerful' and in need of guardrails, highlighting security vulnerabilities. The accidental leak underscored the depth of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s partnership with one of its largest enterprise clients while revealing critical deployment plans involving Azure OpenAI Service and Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT)'s LLM-based tech stack. A Walmart AI engineer noted Microsoft Corporation's clear lead over Google in AI security. Simultaneously, MSFT faced escalating internal protests. Demonstrators disrupted CEO Satya Nadella's keynote and other panels, accusing MSFT of enabling Israeli military operations via Azure. Protesters from the 'No Azure for Apartheid' group, including recently terminated employees, accused MSFT of complicity in civilian deaths in Gaza, demanding that the company sever ties with Israel. The backlash intensifies scrutiny over Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s growing military AI footprint. Analysts are watching closely for potential customer fallout, employee unrest, and reputational risks that could derail enterprise trust in its AI ecosystem. WMT is up by over 6.5% since the start of 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of WMT to grow, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than WMT and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about this READ NEXT: and Disclosure: None.
The Verge
21-05-2025
- Business
- The Verge
Microsoft's AI security chief accidentally reveals Walmart's AI plans after protest
Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's use of Microsoft's AI tools during a Build talk that was disrupted by protesters. The Build livestream was muted and the camera pointed down, but the session resumed moments later after the protesters were escorted out. In the aftermath, Haiby then accidentally switched to Microsoft Teams while sharing her screen, revealing confidential internal messages about Walmart's upcoming use of Microsoft's Entra and AI gateway services. Haiby was co-hosting a Build session on best security practices for AI, alongside Sarah Bird, Microsoft's head of responsible AI, when two former Microsoft employees disrupted the talk to protest against the company's cloud contracts with the Israeli government. 'Sarah, you are whitewashing the crimes of Microsoft in Palestine, how dare you talk about responsible AI when Microsoft is fueling the genocide in Palestine,' shouted Hossam Nasr, an organizer with the protest group No Azure for Apartheid, and a former Microsoft employee who was fired for holding a vigil outside Microsoft's headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza. View this post on Instagram Walmart is one of Microsoft's biggest corporate customers, and already uses the company's Azure OpenAI service for some of its AI work. 'Walmart is ready to rock and roll with Entra Web and AI Gateway,' says one of Microsoft's cloud solution architects in the Teams messages. The chat session also quoted a Walmart AI engineer, saying: 'Microsoft is WAY ahead of Google with AI security. We are excited to go down this path with you.' We asked Microsoft to comment on this protest and the Teams messages, but the company did not respond in time for publication. Both of the protesters involved in this latest Microsoft Build disruption were former Microsoft employees, with Vaniya Agrawal appearing alongside Nasr. Agrawal interrupted Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former CEO Steve Ballmer, and CEO Satya Nadella later during the company's 50th anniversary event last month. Agrawal was dismissed shortly after putting in her two weeks' notice at Microsoft before the protest, according to an email seen by The Verge. This is the third interruption of Microsoft Build by protesters, after a Palestinian tech worker disrupted Microsoft's head of CoreAI on Tuesday, and a Microsoft employee interrupted the opening keynote of Build while CEO Satya Nadella was talking on stage. This latest protest comes days after Microsoft announced last week that it had conducted an internal review and used an unnamed external firm to assess how its technology is used in the war in Gaza. Microsoft says that its relationship with Israel's Ministry of Defense (IMOD) is 'structured as a standard commercial relationship' and that it has 'found no evidence that Microsoft's Azure and AI technologies, or any of our other software, have been used to harm people or that IMOD has failed to comply with our terms of service or our AI Code of Conduct.'
