Microsoft CEO names Rolf Harms adviser on AI economics, Business Insider reports

Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella has tapped Rolf Harms, who wrote the white paper “Economics of the Cloud” in 2010, as an adviser on AI economics to help rethink the company’s business model for the AI era, Business Insider’s Ashley Stewart reports, citing a memo the CEO sent top Microsoft executives this month. “We need to rapidly rethink the new economics of AI across the company — just as we once did with the cloud,” Nadella wrote in the memo. “This platform shift is all about building a new AI factory and family of Copilots and agents that drive diffusion and usage across the full stack.”