Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in a Wall Street Journal interview cited by outlets, criticizes major AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Nadella argues that frontier AI labs cannot simultaneously warn that advanced AI will eliminate large numbers of jobs while also describing their own systems in forceful terms and then asking for extensive additional funding and large-scale data-center resources. He also says the industry should not expect its technologies to be deployed without earning broader public acceptance, describing this as society’s “social permission.” Nadella’s comments come alongside a call for alternatives and cost considerations, with the emphasis on cheaper models and using other approaches, including the use of DeepSeek as an example of competition or substitute options. The reporting frames Nadella’s stance as a push for a more balanced industry model that combines technical progress with affordability, customer control, and public trust rather than relying solely on promises of transformative economic disruption.