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Microsoft has announced MAI-Image-1, its first fully in-house text-to-image model, and begun public testing on benchmarking platforms while preparing integrations into Copilot and Bing Image Creator—an important step in Microsoft’s move from relying primarily on third‑party models to building...

For two decades, Google's search box quietly defined the internet's front door — but the arrival of answer‑first AI tools such as Perplexity, ChatGPT (with browsing and memory), and Microsoft’s Copilot Search is forcing an architectural and commercial rethink of what “search” actually means...

Anthropic’s new experiment finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can implant reliable “backdoor” behaviors in large language models (LLMs), a result that challenges the assumption that model scale alone defends against data poisoning—and raises immediate operational concerns for...

Microsoft has quietly folded OpenAI’s Sora video model into the Bing mobile experience, giving anyone with the Bing app on iOS or Android the ability to generate short, AI-crafted videos for free — a move that broadens access to cutting‑edge text‑to‑video technology while amplifying questions...

The generative-AI tide has already broken over the information landscape: people are turning to AI for everyday information needs at rates that stunned researchers a year ago, and yet when it comes to news the public remains stubbornly, and sometimes bitterly, skeptical of machine-made...

Microsoft’s Copilot is set to draw on Harvard Medical School’s consumer-facing content, a move Reuters reported on October 8, 2025 that companies and clinicians say could strengthen the assistant’s medical answers — but which leaves critical questions about scope, provenance, liability and...

Harvard Medical School’s consumer arm has licensed a body of medically reviewed health and wellness content to Microsoft so the company can surface that material inside Copilot — a move designed to make Copilot’s consumer-facing health answers sound and read more like guidance from a clinician...

Microsoft’s advisory and subsequent community analysis describe CVE-2025-59252 as a presentation-layer spoofing vulnerability that affects M365 Copilot-family services; the vendor classifies the issue as an assistant-origin/provenance failure that can cause generated outputs to appear to come...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing post “Unlock productivity with AI automation” frames Copilot as an everyday, approachable assistant designed to remove friction from routine tasks and fold generative AI directly into how people plan, write, and organize their lives. The company positions Copilot as...

OpenAI’s invite‑only video app Sora exploded onto the iOS charts in its first week, pulling in an estimated 627,000 iOS downloads across the U.S. and Canada and briefly topping Apple’s App Store — a launch velocity that, by Appfigures’ estimates, was nearly on par with ChatGPT’s launch footprint...

OpenAI’s new Sora app rocketed into the public eye this week, racking up tens of thousands of installs in its first 48 hours and briefly reaching the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store — a debut that both confirms strong consumer demand for AI-generated short video and exposes immediate operational...

OpenAI’s invite‑only Sora app has rocketed into the public conversation after third‑party telemetry put its install count at roughly 164,000 in the first 48 hours, a surge that vaulted the app into the U.S. App Store’s top rankings — although outlets differ on whether it briefly reached No. 1 or...

Goldman Sachs’ data chief delivered a blunt diagnosis on the bank’s Exchanges podcast: the era of easy, human‑generated training data for frontier AI models is effectively over, and the industry faces a structural choice about how to feed the next generation of systems. This is not hyperbole —...

Goldman Sachs’ chief data officer has delivered a blunt verdict: the era of easy, human‑generated training data for large AI models is closing, and the industry must change how it feeds the next generation of systems. Background: what "running out of data" actually means When AI researchers say...

OpenAI’s invite-only Sora app rocketed into the U.S. App Store’s Top Overall chart within 48 hours of its iOS debut, recording an estimated 56,000 downloads on day one and roughly 164,000 installs across the first two days — a surge that pushed Sora to the No. 3 position and immediately focused...

Global Objects is using a mix of cinema-grade capture rigs, cloud-scale compute, and NVIDIA-accelerated tooling to assemble what it calls a marketplace-sized library of photoreal, production-ready 3D objects—digital twins of real props, products, and environments intended for film, XR...

OpenAI’s new short‑form video app, Sora, rocketed into the U.S. App Store’s Top Overall chart and reached No. 3 within 48 hours of its invite‑only iOS debut — a milestone that underlines how rapidly consumer interest can concentrate around a polished AI-native creative product. Background OpenAI...

OpenAI’s new short-form video app, Sora, rocketed into the U.S. App Store top ranks within days of its invite-only iOS debut, registering a rapid surge in downloads and igniting a debate about consumer appetite for AI-generated video, platform safety, and the future of social media-style...

Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...