Insider Brief Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute launched its third cohort of researchers to study how artificial intelligence is being adopted across firms, industries and communities. Microsoft said the cohort will focus on frontier firms and how they are reshaping work, job design, skill demands, productivity and regional economic development. The research will examine the gap…

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Anthropic this week extended Claude Cowork, its agentic tool for general knowledge work, to web and mobile platforms for Max subscribers, after launching as a desktop-only app in January. The update lets users start tasks from a desktop and monitor or retrieve results from their phone, reflecting Anthropic’s ambition to position Cowork as a background…

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Microsoft has reportedly begun relying more heavily on its own in-house MAI models rather than third-party AI from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report. The company has started using MAI models to handle a portion of user prompts within Excel and Word, marking a shift from its previous approach of powering large parts…

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Meta unveiled Muse Image, a new AI image generator built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, now available free through the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories and WhatsApp. The tool allows users to create cartoonish images, experiment with interior decorating concepts tied to Facebook Marketplace, and perform prompt-based photo editing, including removing background elements or generating custom…

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Insider Brief Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8B robot-navigation model that uses RGB images and plain-language instructions to move robots through environments. Mistral said the model uses a single RGB camera without LiDAR, depth sensors or multiple cameras, and achieved a 76.6% success rate on R2R-CE validation unseen. The company said Robostral Navigate was…

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1001, a GCC- and London-based company building sovereign AI systems for critical infrastructure, announced a $30 million Series A round led by Lux Capital. PIF-owned Sanabil Investments, 9Yards and Hanabi joined as new investors, while existing backers General Catalyst, CIV and Stanford researcher Chris Ré increased their commitments. Several angel investors also participated, including Karim…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Meta’s Alexandr Wang was talking a big game days ago, saying the in-training ‘Watermelon’ model had pulled level with GPT-5.5 and promising an X user, “you’ll like what we have cooking.” Today, Meta’s kitchen served something even more surprising: Muse…

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… government of the people, by the people, for the people …     — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1, and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10. Across benchmarks, inference prices have…

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An international research consortium has demonstrated that machine learning can dramatically accelerate the discovery of superconducting materials, using AI to screen vast numbers of elemental combinations and identify the most promising candidates for detailed quantum analysis. The SuperC consortium, led by Aalto University Professor Päivi Törmä, used the approach to identify two previously unknown superconductors,…

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South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix has filed to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, with the offering expected to price on Thursday and begin trading on Friday. Based on the company’s recent Seoul closing price, the listing could raise approximately $28 billion, according to Bloomberg, making it one of the largest…

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