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Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner
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Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner

Microsoft Research's Mirage is a video world model that uses latent space storage instead of pixel-based point clouds...

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits he's a token-maxer, too: "It's addictive"
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits he's a token-maxer, too: "It's addictive"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns against overusing powerful frontier AI models for everyday tasks, noting that...

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Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file
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Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file

Microsoft and three Chinese universities developed SkillOpt, a method that optimizes instruction documents for AI...

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A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison
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A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison

This article describes an implementation of Microsoft SkillOpt, a system for optimizing AI prompts through an...

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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

College graduates have been booing AI-focused commencement speakers, reflecting broader public skepticism about...

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Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
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Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

Microsoft is restricting employee access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model due to data retention concerns, while the...

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Microsoft AI chief walks back comments about AI taking over white-collar work
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Microsoft AI chief walks back comments about AI taking over white-collar work

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman clarified his previous comments about AI automating white-collar jobs, stating that...

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For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
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For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Microsoft packages containing malicious credential stealer malware were discovered for the second time in weeks, with...

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Microsoft Research's Lens proves detailed captions matter more than raw scale for training efficient image generators
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Microsoft Research's Lens proves detailed captions matter more than raw scale for training efficient image generators

Microsoft Research introduces Lens, a 3.8 billion parameter text-to-image model that matches larger competitors by...

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Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job
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Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, discusses superintelligence timeline, Microsoft's AI restructuring, and his...

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Microsoft tightens rules for conflict zones after investigation into Israel's military use of Azure
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Microsoft tightens rules for conflict zones after investigation into Israel's military use of Azure

Microsoft completed an investigation into Israel's military use of its Azure cloud platform and implemented new human...

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Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription
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Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-1.5, an improved speech-to-text model supporting 43 languages with 2.4%...

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Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive
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Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly criticized an internal memo proposing to make the company's AI agent Scout...

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Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
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Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?

Microsoft's AI products are underperforming in the market, and GitHub has faced operational challenges. The article...

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Microsoft trained its MAI models on unlicensed web data despite promising "enterprise grade, clean and commercially licensed data"
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Microsoft trained its MAI models on unlicensed web data despite promising "enterprise grade, clean and commercially licensed data"

Microsoft is accused of training its MAI models on unlicensed web data from Common Crawl, contradicting its claims of...

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Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint
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Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

A tutorial on running Microsoft Fara, a browser-use agent, in Google Colab with a mock OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The...

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Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365
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Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365

Microsoft has announced wider testing of its new Autopilot feature, a new category of autonomous agents that can work...

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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight

Microsoft announced new AI initiatives at its Build conference, including in-house reasoning models and AI agents,...

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Build 2026: Microsoft tops Google in image generation while playing catch-up on reasoning
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Build 2026: Microsoft tops Google in image generation while playing catch-up on reasoning

Microsoft announced seven new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including its first reasoning model, a new tuning...

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