Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI is seeking a pre-IPO financing round before pursuing a Hong Kong listing in 2027, Bloomberg reported on July 20. Lee plans to close the round around the publication of 01.AI's first…
Bonsai 27B is a 27-billion-parameter large language model using 1-bit quantization (BitNet b1.58 architecture) that compresses to roughly 4GB, enabling it to run entirely on a high-end smartphone or l…
Norway will nearly ban generative AI for students aged 6-13 starting fall 2026, and Barclay Damon law firm requires junior lawyers to work without AI for their first three years, both arguing that beg…
Microsoft released Aurora 1.5, an open-source update to its Earth system foundation model that adds 22 weather variables, hourly forecasts, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting. The model, available…
Microsoft Research released Aurora 1.5, an updated Earth-system foundation model for weather forecasting, adding 22 weather variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecastin…
Microsoft Research introduced Flint, an open-source visualization intermediate language that enables AI agents to generate polished charts from compact specs. Flint supports 46 chart types and can com…
Magnus, a former SVP of Engineering at Lark and VP Engineering at Strive Health, is now Chief Tentacle Officer at Groktopus LLC, writing about AI and the future of work. He has been actively developin…
GraphRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation method from Microsoft Research, uses knowledge graphs to connect entities and relationships, improving AI's ability to answer complex queries accurately. Thi…
Microsoft Research unveiled Memora, a memory system for AI agents that decouples storage from retrieval to provide scalable long-term recall. The system reduces context token usage by up to 98% while …
Sean Xuefeng Du will present a new hallucination-detection method, Answer-agreement Representation Shaping (ARS), at ICML 2026 in Seoul on July 9. The work, developed at Nanyang Technological Universi…
A chatbot built to mimic human texting gradually broke character over long conversations, outputting markdown and lists despite a system prompt banning them. Researchers found this isn't a prompt-writ…
Researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Columbia University developed generative causal testing (GCT), a method that distills black-box brain-prediction models into tes…
Microsoft Research's AutoGen framework enables multi-agent AI systems where specialized agents collaborate through structured conversations to solve complex tasks. The open-source framework, which gai…
A 2025 experiment by research nonprofit METR found that 16 experienced open-source developers using AI tools on familiar codebases were actually 19% slower, despite expecting a 24% speedup and feeling…
Researchers from Renmin University of China and Microsoft Research introduced Arbor, a persistent hypothesis tree that helps AI coding agents remember and refine learnings over long research sessions.…
Microsoft researchers detailed an exploit chain called AutoJack that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. The flaw sits in AutoGen Studio, the open-source prot…
Klarna cut hundreds of customer service roles in 2024 to replace them with an AI chatbot, but after customer complaints, it began hiring gig workers instead of full-time agents. This shift illustrates…
Researchers at Renmin University of China and Microsoft Research released Arbor, an open-source framework that outperformed OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code by more than 2.5 times in average…
Global data center electricity demand grew 17% in 2025 and is projected to nearly double to 950 TWh by 2030, driven largely by AI inference workloads, according to the International Energy Agency. On-…
Microsoft Research has released SkillLens, an open-source framework designed as a "microscope" for analyzing how AI agents absorb and utilize skills. The framework provides a complete pipeline for ext…