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Microsoft released its first advanced reasoning AI model at Build 2026 on Tuesday, marking a major step in the company’s drive to reduce its dependence on OpenAI’s technology. MAI-Thinking-1 is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 35 billion active parameters out of approximately 1 trillion total — and it was […]

Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo, the company’s boldest attempt to reach price-sensitive buyers in years, has shipped 1.1 million units in its first quarter on sale — surpassing the launch quarter of the MacBook Air M1, historically Apple’s best-selling laptop. The data, reported by TechCrunch and corroborated by IDC, suggests […]

Microsoft’s long-running struggle with mobile platforms has produced many experiments — Windows Phone, Windows RT, Surface Duo — all casualties of the same problem: no apps. At Build 2026, the company unveiled a radical answer to that 15-year problem: eliminate the app model entirely and replace it with AI […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asks AI companies to voluntarily submit powerful models for government review 30 days before public release — but explicitly prohibits creating any mandatory licensing or preclearance system. The order is a dramatically scaled-back version of the one Trump was […]

A small inference company has done what the major cloud providers couldn’t easily offer: running DeepSeek’s state-of-the-art V4 Flash model on AMD’s MI300X accelerators. The breakthrough — documented in a detailed worklog by Doubleword engineer Fergus Finn — suggests that AMD’s long-neglected first-generation AI silicon may be a viable, […]

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) committed up to $50 million to Moderna on Monday to develop an mRNA vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV), as an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows no signs of slowing. A vaccine platform repurposed Moderna will apply the same […]

Google’s always-on AI agent, Gemini Spark, is rolling out to subscribers of the company’s $99-per-month AI Ultra plan — and early testing by The Verge’s David Pierce reveals an assistant that is simultaneously the most impressive and most unsettling AI product he has used. What Spark does Spark is […]

Nvidia opened Computex 2026 in Taipei with the RTX Spark, a 1-petaflop superchip that combines an Arm-based CPU, a Blackwell RTX GPU, and a full-stack AI software platform into a single package for Windows laptops and desktops. Microsoft, Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, and MSI will ship RTX Spark systems […]

Chinese AI startup MiniMax released M3 on June 1, an open-weights model that matches or beats proprietary leaders like GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key coding and agentic benchmarks — at 5% to 10% of their API cost. A new architecture for sparse attention M3 is built on […]

WindBorne Systems released the sixth version of its WeatherMesh AI model on June 1, claiming it now outperforms the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) — the gold standard of global weather prediction — on key accuracy metrics. The model updates its forecast every hour at a resolution […]