Historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of 'Sapiens,' said in an interview on The Economist's 'Insider' podcast released Thursday that now is the time to resist giving AI rights, warning that AI systems c…
Microsoft AI's chief marketing officer, Andréa Mallard, is leaving the company after about six months in the role, with plans to relocate to Europe in August to be closer to her unwell father, accordi…
Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, has hired two more former Google executives, Nick Lee and Suzanne Pellican, as part of its push to become a tech powerhouse. Lee, previously corporate vice pr…
Microsoft AI's MAI-Image-2.5 model has appeared in different positions across published Arena leaderboard snapshots, with launch materials reporting No. 2 for image editing and No. 3 for text-to-image…
Microsoft AI's MAI-Image-2.6 model scored 1,336 points to rank second in Arena's text-to-image leaderboard on August 10th, 45 points behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2 Medium and 20 points ahead of Grok Imag…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the company is betting on small specialist models instead of expensive general-purpose ones. Its MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model tops the CyberGym benchmark when embedde…
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said on Fox News that AI will eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in finance, consulting, law, and tech within one to five years, while Mustafa Su…
Microsoft AI released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a 137B-total-parameter cybersecurity model with 5B active parameters and 256k context length, designed for defensive tasks. Running inside Microsoft's MDASH mu…
Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, two new model variants now in public preview on Azure. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is the company's highest-fidelity image model, priced at $5 pe…
Microsoft AI on July 23rd 2026 launched public previews of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, two purpose-built generative models trained on enterprise-grade data. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is priced at…
Microsoft AI partnered with poet William Sieghart and creative studio Gravity Road to launch Ode Poetry, a digital experience that uses MAI's audio models to recommend poems based on users' feelings. …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted in February 2026 that AI would achieve human-level performance on most professional tasks within 12-18 months, while Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed th…
London startup geoSurge raised $12 million in an oversubscribed Seed round led by AlbionVC on July 3, 2026, to secure brand visibility within AI models. The company's Corpus Engineering method targets…
Microsoft AI's MAI-Code-1-Flash coding model is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, offering fast, low-latency responses for high-volume agentic coding workflow…
A.I. is creating jobs rather than eliminating them, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said executives blaming layoffs on artificial intelligence are "lazy." The shift in discourse comes as a m…
Microsoft AI released a detailed technical report on the development of its first model, MAI-Thinking-1, emphasizing a controlled, reproducible training process built on human-generated data and propr…
Top AI executives including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signed a public letter urging Congress to enact laws requiring synthetic DNA sellers and…
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella joined podcast hosts swyx, Sarah Guo, and Elad Gil for a crossover episode of No Priors and Latent Space following his Build keynote. The discussion focused on…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs jointly urged Congress on June 3 to mandate screening and tracking of all synthetic DNA and RNA orders in the United States, warning that large language mo…
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI signed a public letter urging Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders to prevent AI-enabled development of biolog…