#030
May 19, 2026
The Prophet on the Payroll
Reading Suleyman's eighteen months as a sales document
In March, Satya Nadella moved Mustafa Suleyman off Copilot. The Register called it accurately: the reorganization “frees him from the pesky need to show a return on AI investments.” Suleyman went sideways into a freshly minted MAI Superintelligence team, accountable for the kind of work that throws off press releases and recruitment letters rather than quarterly bookings. Two months later, on a YouTube stage with the Financial Times, he announced that within twelve to eighteen months, AI would perform at “human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks.” Accountants. Lawyers. Marketing. Project management. Everyone “sitting down at a computer.”
