Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Sunday that the pursuit of superintelligence — AI technology that could surpass humans across virtually every cognitive task — should focus on “helping humanity” and remain under “human control.”

In a post on X, Nadella called for broader AI adoption through what he described as a “frontier ecosystem” where both closed- and open-source AI models can “thrive” across countries, communities and businesses.

“Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it’s not worth pursuing,” Nadella wrote. “We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive.”

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He added that organizations should be able to build AI systems using their own data rather than becoming dependent on a single model provider.

“For firms, it’s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge,” Nadella wrote. “Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control.”

Nadella called for a deliberate approach to AI development, saying Microsoft supports concepts such as “embedded evaluators.”

“So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal,” he said. “We also welcome ideas like ‘embedded evaluators’ and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk.”

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Nadella also said advanced AI development should not be controlled by a handful of companies.

“The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia,” he said. 

“This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the ‘Code of Conduct’ that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.”

His comments come as debate intensifies over the rapid pace of AI development and the risks posed by increasingly capable systems.

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“I won’t lie to you – there are real dangers,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in an interview with CBS News. “And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks.”

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Last week, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned on social media that Anthropic and OpenAI are “gambling with our lives” by pursuing self-improving superintelligence, adding that AI has a greater than 10% chance of “kill[ing] all humans” within “the next decade.”

FOX Business’ Robert McGreevy contributed to this report.

ET Intelligence Group: The stocks of Tata group companies including Tata Steel, Tata Motors PV, and Tata Chemicals are likely to gain momentum after losing 8-22% on the bourses in three months. Investors are expected to price in stakes of these companies in Tata Sons as it inches closer to listing publicly following the RBI‘s instructions to comply with the regulations governing the upper-layer investment companies.

Each of these three companies hold 2.5-3% stake in Tata Sons, the group’s holding company. In all, seven listed and two unlisted group companies hold between 0.4% and 3.1% stake each in Tata Sons.

For Tata Chemicals, the estimated value of its 2.5% stake in Tata Sons is around ₹30,000 crore, nearly two-times its market cap of ₹15,597 crore. The stock has lost 18% in three months and 20% year-to-date.

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Tata Sons’ market valuation is estimated to be ₹11.9 lakh crore based on the value of its stakes in group companies.

Each of Tata Steel and Tata Motors PV owns around 3.1% stake in Tata Sons, amounting to ₹36,348 crore or 16% and 33% of their respective market caps in that order.
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Other group companies including Indian Hotels, Tata Consumer and Tata Power hold 0.4-1.6% stake in Tata Sons. Together, these six companies hold an estimated ₹1.4 lakh crore worth of shares in Tata Sons.

Shapoorji Pallonji Group is weighing the option to raise funds or extend about ₹3,500 crore of debt due to Porteast and scheduled for repayment by the end of September, as the central bank’s effective mandate of a Tata Sons listing provides clear path to investors for debt repayment, people familiar with the matter said. The RBI mandate would also build broader investor trust in the ability of the infrastructure conglomerate to monetise its stake in the Tata group holding company and meet future redemption commitments, they said.

SP Group will decide whether to raise ₹3,500 crore for repayment or request for additional time to meet the repayment deadline, the people said.

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Given a clear exit path for SP Group lenders through listing of Tata Sons, lenders would be receptive for an extension of the September 30 payment timeline, said people familiar with the developments. SP Group had raised ₹28,500 crore through NCDs in May 2025, at Porteast, which were backed by a pledge of a 9.2% stake in Tata Sons. The bonds were originally priced at 19.75%.

The refinancing comes as Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s debt investors gain greater visibility on a potential value-unlocking event at Tata Sons following the Reserve Bank of India‘s rejection of Tata Sons’ application to voluntarily surrender its core investment company registration.

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SP Group had raised about ₹15,200 crore through three-year rupee-denominated zero-coupon bonds issued by Eqyizen Investment at a yield of 18.95%, alongside a $650 million bond issued by Mercury Finance at 14.5%. The instruments were raised largely against the group’s Tata Sons holding. Funds raised at the Eqyizen level were used primarily to refinance about ₹16,500 crore of rupee bonds at Goswami Infratech.This request from SP Group would follow the regulatory rejection of a Tata Sons request for de-registration as an NBFC.

Investor demand for SP Group debt has improved, with recent trades tightening and investors indicating that the earlier 18%-19% IRR reference level is no longer relevant following positive developments around Tata Sons, people familiar with the matter said.

Apart from Porteast, Equizen financing also carries a deleveraging covenant requiring repayment of at least ₹13,500 crore within 24 months of issuance.