Microsoft Builds Its Own Way Out of OpenAI
At Build this week, Microsoft AI unveiled seven in-house models trained from scratch with "zero distillation." The flagship reasoning model is pitched as matching Claude Opus 4.6 on coding. The subtext is louder than the launch: Microsoft no longer wants to need OpenAI quite so much.
Read full story →Trump's AI Safety Order: Voluntary, Thirty Days, and Shaped by Anthropic
Signed quietly on Tuesday after a postponed ceremony, Trump's order asks frontier labs to hand models to federal testers for up to 30 days before release. It is voluntary, halved from the earlier 90-day draft, and built around the same Mythos-style cyber capabilities that pulled the White House into the room in the first place.
Read full story →Nvidia Wants to Sell You a $3,500 Laptop to Run an Agent
Jensen Huang's RTX Spark chip pairs Blackwell with a MediaTek Arm CPU and 128 GB of unified memory, promising 120-billion-parameter agents running locally. Microsoft, Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo and MSI are in. AMD, Intel and Qualcomm shares dropped the day of the announcement.
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