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Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians (Clare Duffy/CNN)

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An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with "what was state of the art just a few months ago", refusing to use distillation, more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyma...

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Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained "from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advance...

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Microsoft unveils Majorana 2 quantum chip, which was developed with the help of AI, and says it will have commercially useful quantum machines by 2029 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Microsoft unveils Majorana 2 quantum chip, which w...

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Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual smartphone (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS...

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Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that aims to provide granular, consistent governance over AI agent behavior (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specificatio...

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GitHub unveils the GitHub Copilot desktop app in preview, which introduces a new feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub unveils the GitHub Copilot desktop app in p...

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Microsoft announces seven AI models, including one focused on reasoning and an "ultra efficient" coding model that it says was fine-tuned for GitHub (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Microsoft announces seven AI models, including one...

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Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a contact within Microsoft Teams to automate scheduling and more (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on AI agent b...

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Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexit...

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Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, comm...

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Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)

Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for E...

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Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a...

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Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based...

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Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool "to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption" (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 i...

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Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, ChatGPT, and other platforms (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI...

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Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners (Bloomberg)

Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI...

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Email: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty (Politico)

Email: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google w...

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