Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on personal assistant and updates across Microsoft's in-house AI models. If you didn't watch the event...
The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices,...
Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B parameters, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (5B parameters, "purpose-built for GitHub Copilot and VS Code to deliver high performance and lower cost [...] rolling out to GitHub Copilot...
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Microsoft just announced "Project Solara," a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it "a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences." It's built on Android, not Windows. Microsoft demonstrated two concept Project Solara...
Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it's now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. 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...
Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI...
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JetBrains releases Mellum2 under Apache 2.0 — a 12B MoE model trained on 10.6 trillion tokens for AI workflows. The post JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines appeared first on MarkTechPost.
We build NVIDIA Apex from source, detect fused kernels, and benchmark FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm, and torch.amp in Transformer training. The post How to Speed Up Transformer Training Using NVIDIA Apex (FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm) and Native torch.amp appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Financial institutions have spent years building AI: fraud models, credit models, recommendation engines and risk systems. While this sprawl of task-specific models has been effective, it’s also constrained by siloed systems. Siloed systems prevent institutions from developing a unified...
MiniMax M3 introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention, a 1M-token context window, and native image, video, and computer use support. The post MiniMax Releases MiniMax M3 with MSA Architecture Supporting 1M-Token Context, Native Multimodality, and Agentic Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost.
The open-source project adds local persistent memory to Hermes Agent through six layers, gated retrieval, and a wiki. The post Meet Memory OS: A 6-Layer Open-Source Memory Stack Built on Top of Hermes Agent appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Parallax replaces LLA's per-query solver with a learned projector, doubling arithmetic intensity and improving perplexity at 0.6B and 1.7B. The post Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch appeared first on MarkTechPost.
"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great battery life - at least on the Mac. In the Windows world, performance hasn't fully matched up...
Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else's profile and then reset the password....