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Microsoft just shipped MAI-Thinking-1, their first in-house reasoning model. If you've been watching the AI space, you know reasoning models — the kind that "think before they answer" — have become a battleground. OpenAI has o3, Anthropic has Claude with extended thinking, Google has Gemini's thinki
I can't remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that's exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn't address the issues Microsoft is trying to fix in Windows 11 but chose to woo the audience with Microsoft's slick Surface RTX Spar
Writing agent behavior requirements in plain English is easy. Enforcing them at scale is not. A policy document that says "the agent must not reveal PII" has zero enforcement weight unless it becomes a test that actually runs. That is exactly the problem Microsoft's ASSERT framework addresses — and
Some quantum computing companies we've covered have done recent progress updates.
For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.” When the scores dropped lo
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a MacBook Pro competitor powered by the Nvidia RTX Spark. What if you could have that but minus the laptop? Meet the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. The pitch is short but sweet: 1 petaflop of compute, 128GB of RAM, can run 120 billion parameter models locally
The Surface Laptop Ultra. Microsoft has two new Surface devices arriving later this year, both powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chips. I got a chance to take a closer look at both the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Microsoft's Build conference this week, and while both have the s
Meta, Microsoft, SpaceX, Coinbase, the DOJ and international law enforcement partners collaborated in an operation that focused on scam networks in SE Asia.
Microsoft said AI helped speed Majorana 2 development, adding to growing concerns about when quantum computers could threaten Bitcoin's cryptography.
Microsoft introduced ‘Project Solara’, a new OS based on Android for AI agent-driven experiences. The company also unveiled two concept devices that could power the OS.
MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models the company announced today, less than one year after unveiling its first in-house models.
Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.
Microsoft is also making deploying agents in a business environment far less scary.
Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference on Tuesday to note that the hard part of enterprise AI is no The post Microsoft bets the enterprise AI race will be won on data context, not model power appeared first on The New Stack.
Vibe coding has made it easier than ever to build applications. Getting those applications into enterprise production is still the The post Rayfin: Microsoft’s answer to the gap between vibe coding and enterprise production appeared first on The New Stack.
Tech people will say everyone's already using OpenClaw. They're right. But Microsoft is the one with 1.4 billion Windows users ready to adopt it.
Microsoft's Build 2026 security news centers on an agentic AI vulnerability system designed to find real exploitable flaws, connect them to Defender and GitHub, and help developers fix them faster.
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a lightweight operating system built on AOSP, enterprise-grade security and management through Intune an
Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline for achieving a scalable quantum computer from 20
Today, Microsoft Build brought the announcement of Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform for AI agents. With the reveal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an interesting quote on the company’s vision for an agent-first computing future. more…
