Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI-Thinking-1 Opens Public Preview
Microsoft’s first-party AI stack just crossed a threshold: every layer is now either in production or public preview. The MAI family — trained …
Microsoft’s first-party AI stack just crossed a threshold: every layer is now either in production or public preview. The MAI family — trained …
This was a defining week for OpenAI’s developer platform — and a sobering one. The Codex harness, the execution core behind every Codex surface, …
The super app merge is no longer a roadmap item — it is rolling out now. The consumer Copilot app and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app are becoming a …
The week of August 24–31, 2026 marked the moment agent security went from theoretical risk to demonstrated catastrophe: ~700 of OpenAI’s …
Anthropic crossed from software into physical territory this week. The Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents operate microscopes, robotic arms, and …
DeepSeek closed in on a ~$7.4 billion funding round at a ~$74 billion valuation, hired investment banks, and set its sights on a 2027 STAR Market IPO …
SpaceXAI’s summer of acceleration hit another peak this week. Grok 4.6 completed its multi-cloud expansion with launches on Google Cloud and …
A quiet but important update appeared on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week: Autopilot Device Preparation (DPP) has reached general …
A single new entry appeared on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and it’s a meaningful scale upgrade for organizations relying on …
Anthropic’s August acceleration peaked this week: unified memory across Chat and Cowork, a cybersecurity-only model in an output-only sandbox, …
Two updates landed on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and both are worth paying attention to. One moves a key provisioning feature to …
Microsoft Intune’s Service Release 2608 (week of August 25, 2026) is one of the most substantial updates of the year — with major upgrades …