Alok Lall

Strategy | x-MSFT | a prolific retweeter :) Views are personal

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

BREAKING: MIT just analyzed 300 AI deployments worth $40 billion & the results are devastating.

Turns out, 95% of enterprise AI projects deliver zero measurable business impact.

Here's what the data revealed:

(hint: the pattern matches every major technology bubble we've seen)

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We’re teaming up with the Premier League to bring one billion-plus fans closer than ever to the game they love.

[Microsoft On the Issues @MSFTIssues]

From search to stethoscope, AI is helping doctors get to the right diagnosis faster. @Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator tackles the toughest diagnostic challenges—faster, cheaper, and more accurately than ever. Learn how MAI-DxO works: https://t.co/FFt3KpJ3uh

[Vlad Catrinescu @vladcatrinescu]

Announcing comprehensive sovereign solutions empowering European organizations | https://t.co/SmqAEOzbmp by the @Microsoft team! #Microsoft

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Biggest career accelerator in the next decade: get really, really good at learning
- figure out your learning style
- use AI to convert material into that format/style (podcasts, quizzes, etc.)
- apply knowledge
- repeat
Learn fast, grow fast

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

You know AI is transformative when it’s at your dinner table.

In the Netherlands today, I met the Albert Heijn team who are using Azure AI Foundry to help customers navigate everyday decisions, like what’s for dinner. https://t.co/IRJFOhVmec

[Microsoft India and South Asia @MicrosoftIndia]

Watch the full episode 2 of #PointTaken here - https://t.co/7WPKSYxQ9O

Microsoft leaders Irina Ghose and Aruna Singh break down how to get CFOs on board with #GenAI—by shifting the lens from cost to value, and spotlighting the real risk: COMO – the Cost of Missing Out.

[BHASHINI @_BHASHINI]

"Technology becomes truly meaningful when it speaks the language of the people."

At the #BHASHINI Samanvay Outreach event hosted at REVA University, Bengaluru, Dr. @RohiniSrivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India & South Asia, shared her insights on how AI can be harnessed to create inclusive digital ecosystems. She emphasized the importance of leveraging AI to empower every citizen, ensuring that language is a bridge, not a barrier.

From discussing the role of AI in public service delivery to highlighting the need for multilingual digital platforms, her keynote provides a roadmap for a truly connected Bharat.

Watch the full keynote on here: https://t.co/FGAloK6FtO

#SamanvayBHASHINI #DigitalIndia #MultilingualAI #REVAUniversity #AIInnovation #TechForIndia #FiresideChat #DigitalInclusion

@narendramodi @AshwiniVaishnaw @JitinPrasada @SecretaryMEITY @abhish18 @amitabhnag @siddaramaiah @DrCaur @REVAUniversity @RohiniSrivathsa @rajawat_ind @MicrosoftIndia @egovkarnataka

[Microsoft Copilot @MSFTCopilot]

Researcher and Analyst are now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents that can help you unlock insights and tackle complex challenges. Explore more: https://t.co/1WnANa0qMi

[Microsoft On the Issues @MSFTIssues]

Watch the latest episode of Between Meetings, as Melanie Nakagawa, @Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer, shares her thoughts on our 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report, including what we’ve achieved and why she’s hopeful for what’s ahead.

https://t.co/fmS3LlWHs2

[Puneet Chandok @puneetck]

500+ proposals for IndiaAI Mission reflect a growing wave of homegrown AI innovation. Hosting #Azure AI on @YottaInfra's Shakti Cloud means faster, trustworthy #AI right here in India. Proud to support this new chapter.

https://t.co/yq7ICjw0KQ

[Microsoft India and South Asia @MicrosoftIndia]

We’re partnering with @YottaInfra to drive #AI innovation by engaging with IndiaAI Mission participants, startups, enterprises, developers, IITs, and government agencies. Read all about the partnership: https://t.co/r4XSd9e7h8

[Microsoft Research @MSFTResearch]

A new paper published in Nature explains how Microsoft’s Aurora AI foundation model goes beyond weather forecasting to more accurately predict a range of environmental events, from hurricanes and typhoons to air quality and ocean waves. https://t.co/zTEg0Lw9Qs

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Aurora is a new foundation model from @MSFTResearch that goes beyond weather forecasting, delivering faster, more accurate predictions of environmental events. Awesome to see this breakthrough published in @Nature. https://t.co/HVGXs5ntAl

[Charles Lamanna @clamanna]

I’m excited to share a wave of new updates we’ve been working on to help you build smarter, collaborative agents with your own data and processes – from Copilot Tuning to multi-agent orchestration in Copilot Studio and so much more.

Check out the blog for all the details and join us at #MSBuild to see it all in action: https://t.co/k5RFR5XnB8

[Dream Sports @DreamSportsHQ]

Dream Sports teams up with @MicrosoftIndia to take India's gaming market to the next level!

The collaboration – formalised at the inaugural edition of WAVES 2025 – aims to explore opportunities to publish Microsoft's gaming portfolio in India, and open doors for more innovative, AI-driven gameplay.

Powered by Dream Sports' deep insights into the Indian gaming community and Microsoft's iconic gaming titles, the two companies will jointly focus on offering more immersive experiences, tailored to gamers in the India region.

https://t.co/zAZJ0kj15K

[Alysa Taylor @AlysaTaylorMSFT]

Congrats to this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup finalists—student innovators using Azure + AI to build a better world:

Signvrse: real-time sign language avatar
HairMatch: AI for curly hair care
Argus: wearable AI for low vision

See who wins at #MSBuild!

https://t.co/IFtqfsgich

[Microsoft BlueHat @MSFTBlueHat]

At #BlueHatIndia, Microsoft’s Sagar Bhure showed us just how fragile deepfake detection systems can be in his talk, “Hacking Deepfake Detection with White and Black Box Attacks.”

From building a detection pipeline to tearing it down, Sagar walked us through:
• How detection models are trained using datasets like FaceForensics++
• The effectiveness of blink detection, head pose estimation & behavior-based signals
• How adversarial attacks and StyleGAN prompts can bypass even robust detectors
• Why subtle image tweaks like “turn lips pink” fooled systems into thinking fakes were real

As deepfake tech accelerates, so must our defenses. This session was a powerful reminder: if you trust your detector too much, you're probably doing it wrong.

[Microsoft BlueHat @MSFTBlueHat]

At BlueHat India Day 2, Charu Srinivasan, CVP of Engineering at Microsoft, opened the morning with a powerful message about one of the biggest shifts reshaping our field: Agentic AI.

In this new era, intelligent agents won’t just assist, they’ll become ubiquitous across our systems, making decisions, interacting with data, and collaborating with other agents and humans alike. As Charu noted, the more capable these agents become, the more critical it is that security evolves to keep pace, operating at AI speed.

She outlined a future where AI agents proactively identify data risks, apply dynamic access controls, and support security by design. But this transformation brings complexity, security professionals must now consider identity, permissions, privacy, insider risk, threat protection, and governance in a whole new light.

Charu emphasized a dual mission for our community:

1.  AI agents for security
2. Security for AI agents

This relationship is deeply interconnected and defining it will be one of our biggest challenges in the coming years.

As autonomous agents grow more powerful, defenders must not only secure them, but guide and govern their actions. Agentic AI will reinvent our roles, but human traits strategic thinking, curiosity, empathy, and diverse perspectives will remain irreplaceable.

Charu left us with a call to action: Developing your skills as an AI leader isn’t optional, it’s how we’ll shape the future of security.

#BlueHatIndia

[Microsoft BlueHat @MSFTBlueHat]

At BlueHat India Day 2, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar (@ram_ssk), Microsoft’s resident Data Cowboy and Head of the AI Red Team, took the stage for a keynote that was equal parts eye-opening and unsettling. Ram unpacked what happens when adversarial machine learning meets generative AI. From subtle image perturbations that fool models into seeing gibbons instead of pandas, to video analytics systems that could be manipulated through outdated dependencies, the message was clear: AI systems remain deeply vulnerable.

He shared lessons from red teaming over 100 generative AI systems, outlining the four harm categories that Microsoft’s AI Red Team probes for:

• Traditional security risks
• Content safety issues
• Dangerous capabilities

Five takeaways that stuck with us:

1. Long before AI Safety craze, researchers have been warning about how ML systems are not built with security in mind
2. Traditional security failures do not go away
3. Attackers don’t always use gradients
4. Psycho-social harms are a new frontier
5. Agents are also going to be messy

Ram reminded us that while generative AI brings powerful new tools, it also expands the attack surface. Security must evolve to meet this challenge, and that starts with understanding how these systems can be broken.

#BlueHatIndia