This week and next, we’re bringing you recordings from our second-ever live taping in San Francisco. First, we sit down with Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, to hear what he’s maxing out his A.I. tokens on, why he’s skeptical that software developers will ever be fully replaced, and how he’s hoping to create a new business model for Xbox. Then, Phil Mohun tells us what it has been like to watch people in the Bay Area interact with two robot dogs that wear the faces of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And finally, we talk with the longtime privacy defender Cindy Cohn about where things stand in the fight to protect internet users from digital surveillance by Big Tech and the government.

 Guests:
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 <li><a href="https://news.microsoft.com/source/exec/satya-nadella/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Satya Nadella</a>, chairman and chief executive of Microsoft.</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.philmohun.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Phil Mohun</a>, executive director of Node.</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy-cohn" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cindy Cohn</a>, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.”</li>
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 Additional Reading:
<ul>
 <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/technology/microsoft-satya-nadella-artificial-intelligence.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says, ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I.</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://nodefoundation.com/program/infinite-loop" rel="noopener noreferrer">Node presents “Beeple: /Infinite_Loop”</a></li>
</ul>

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