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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
AI Scribes Are Quietly Driving Up Healthcare Costs
Insurers and hospitals privately agree that AI medical scribes are inflating billing codes and raising costs — but nobody can agree on a fix.
Anthropic Tops OpenAI in Revenue With $30B Run Rate
Claude maker surpasses OpenAI for the first time, seals massive Broadcom-Google compute deal covering gigawatts of TPU capacity.
WeRide and Uber Bring Spain's First Robotaxis to Madrid
WeRide, Uber, and AVOMO will launch Spain's first commercial robotaxi pilot in Madrid, hailed straight from the Uber app later in 2026.
Great American AI Act: Congress Moves to Freeze State AI Laws
A bipartisan 269-page House draft would freeze state AI development laws for three years while imposing new federal rules on big AI firms.
OpenAI's 'Dreaming' Gives ChatGPT a Memory That Updates Itself
OpenAI's Dreaming V3 memory architecture rebuilds ChatGPT's recall in the background and reaches free-tier users for the first time.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3: First Open Physical AI Omnimodel Cuts Training Cycles to Days
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 launches at Computex 2026 — a fully open foundation model that unifies vision, world generation, and action for robots and autonomous systems.
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft Building a Frontier AI Model for Healthcare
Mayo Clinic owns the model. Microsoft co-develops it. It'll ship to other hospitals through Azure Foundry. A 150-year medical brand meets frontier AI.
Microsoft Scout: An AI Agent That Works Across Every App You Open
Scout reads your email, updates your dashboard, and pings Teams. Microsoft's always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365 and Windows hits developer preview.
Altman at Stargate Michigan: True Cost Is $46B, Coding Drives Demand
Stargate Michigan's listed price is $16B. Inside the building, Oracle says GPUs add another $30-40B. Altman says coding drives the demand.
Trump Signs AI Executive Order: 30-Day Frontier Model Review
Trump's new EO asks AI companies to share frontier models with the government 30 days before release. Voluntary, but signals a big policy shift.
Microsoft Foundry Local Hits GA: On-Device AI Ships to Production
Microsoft made Foundry Local generally available at Build 2026, letting developers ship full AI inference offline on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 Reasoning Model Tops Claude Sonnet in Tests
Microsoft's first homegrown reasoning model beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind human evaluations and matches Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks.
Microsoft Launches MAI-Voice-2, Image-2.5, Transcribe-1.5 at Build
Microsoft's new multimodal MAI models add voice cloning in 15+ languages, image editing, and #1-ranked transcription across 43 languages.
Microsoft's Project Polaris Replaces GPT-4 in GitHub Copilot
At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris — its own AI coding model that ends Copilot's dependence on OpenAI starting August 2026.
Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: Microsoft's First Local AI Workstation
Microsoft's new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory into a mini-PC built for on-device model development.
Mistral Launches Industrial AI With Airbus, BMW, EDF as Customers
Mistral's new Industrial Engineering stack pairs physics-aware models with LLMs — and ships with Airbus, BMW, EDF, and CMA CGM as launch customers.
OpenAI Codex Adds Six Business Plugins, Sites, and ChatGPT Rollout
Codex is no longer just for coders. OpenAI launched six role-specific plugins, a Sites feature, and is pushing Codex into the ChatGPT app for everyone.
Google Launches Managed Agents in Gemini API With Antigravity Preview
A single Gemini API call now spins up a sandboxed agent that codes, browses, and manages files — Google's biggest agentic AI bet for developers.
Microsoft Build 2026: Windows Becomes an AI Agent Platform
Ahead of Build 2026, Microsoft is making Windows itself the platform for autonomous AI agents — with a new framework, an agent store, and Agent 365 going GA.
Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark Superchip to Reinvent the Windows AI Laptop
Nvidia's new RTX Spark Superchip puts a Blackwell GPU, Arm CPU, and 128GB unified memory inside Windows laptops from Dell, HP, ASUS, and Microsoft this fall.
Japan Airlines Begins Humanoid Robot Trial at Haneda Airport
JAL deploys Unitree humanoid robots at Tokyo's Haneda for baggage and cabin work — Japan's first airport humanoid trial, running through 2028.
Mistral Explores Custom AI Chips as Europe Buildout Accelerates
CEO Arthur Mensch confirms Mistral is studying its own silicon while a 13,800-GPU Paris site and a $1.2B Sweden investment come online.
OpenAI Brings Codex Computer Use to Windows With Mobile Steering
Codex can now click, type, and drive Windows apps in the foreground while you steer the work from your phone or a Mac.