… Emil Michael, the Defense Department’s chief technology officer, told CNBC on Friday that Anthropic is still a supply chain risk, but called its powerful security model, Mythos, a “separate national security moment,” adding that “we have to make sure that our networks are hardened up, because that …
… I’m told Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman will unveil a new MAI-Thinking-1 model at Build, the company’s first reasoning model. Microsoft hasn’t used distillation to create its reasoning model, meaning it wasn’t trained by learning from another AI model’s outputs. …
… Announcements for a new Dell XPS 16, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n, and HP’s upcoming OmniBook X 14 and Ultra 16 were confirmed to be among the over 30 Nvidia RTX Spark laptops set to arrive later this year, but details about price and specifications weren’t included in those announcements. …
… MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft’s first reasoning model, was the main addition, along with six other new models focused on image, voice, transcription, and coding. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me these models are part of a bigger effort to prove that Microsoft can become a top AI model creator. …
… A designer could use Adobe to automatically turn a sketch into a full image, render a 3D model of it, then create a AI video just by asking. …
… Microsoft launched its Maia 200 chip earlier this year, a successor to its first in-house AI chip. The Maia 200 is designed to handle large-scale AI workloads like Claude. …
… The lineups announced so far for the fall includes the Surface Laptop Ultra, Dell XPS 16, Asus ProArt P14 and P16, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n, MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI Plus, HP OmniBook Ultra and OmniBook X 14, and unnamed models from Acer and Gigabyte. …
… The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks. …
… Having an AI software stack means being able to deploy AI agents into that data to better organize it — with fewer concerns about leakage than there would be with general-purpose third-party LLMs. “Training AI models on public data is the largest, fastest-growing business in history,” Ellison said … …