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Microsoft has two new Surface devices arriving later this year, both powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chips. I got a chance to take a closer look at both the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Microsoft's Build conference this week, and while both have the same chip inside, they're utilizing Nvidia's […]

Microsoft launched seven new in-house AI models at Build 2026 on June 2, 2026, marking the company's most significant push yet to build its own frontier AI stack independent of OpenAI. The centerpiece is MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft's first large-scale reasoning model, built from scratch on clean commercially licensed data using a sparse Mixture of Experts architecture. Alongside it: MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5-billion-parameter coding model that outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 by 16 percentage points on SWE-Bench Pro while using 60% fewer tokens on complex tasks. This is the complete developer guide to all seven MAI models, their specs, benchmarks, deployment paths, and what they mean for the AI development ecosystem. Why Seven Models at Once? The strategic context matters. For three years, Microsoft's AI product surface — GitHub Copilot, Azure AI, Bing Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot — ran almost entirely on OpenAI models. The Build 2026 announcement is Microsoft's public declaration that it is building a parallel, proprietary model stack. Every new MAI model is trained from scratch using "clean and appropriately licensed data, without distillation from third-party models" — language that directly addresses the intellectual property concerns that have accompanied third-party model licensing. The distribution strategy is equally deliberate. Microsoft is not routing MAI models exclusively through Azure. MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash are available via Fireworks AI, Baseten, and OpenRouter — three infrastructure providers that collectively reach developers who explicitly do not want cloud vendor lock-in. This signals a platform-first posture: Microsoft wants MAI to become a model ecosystem, not just an Azure feature. MAI-Thinking-1: The Reasoning Flagship MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft's answer to Claude Opus 4.x and GPT-5.5 on the reasoning side of the model spectrum. The architecture is a 35-billion-parameter active / approximately 1-trillion-parameter total sparse Mixture of Ex

One hardware announcement and several software highlights from Microsoft Build.

Intel couldn't catch a break. Layoffs. Shakedowns. Crashing CPUs torpedoing its reputation, sending desktop gamers fleeing to AMD. Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel out of multiple flagship laptops. A gaming graphics card going MIA. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the first on its all-important 18A process, turned out excellent - and a handheld version […]

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 live, you can catch up on all the […]

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip. Majorana 2 contains qubits, a unit of information in […]

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According […]

Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.

The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside […]

The company demoed Solara on an Echo Show-style smart display and a smart key badge.

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 devices at Build today: Desk concept and badge […]

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 workloads and local AI tasks. […]

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 models and agentic OpenClaw-like […]

T-SQL on Microsoft Fabric - Episode 1: Mastering Data Retrieval with SELECT, WHERE, and ORDER BY Learning Goals In this lesson, you will learn how to: Read data from tables using SELECT Filter rows with WHERE Sort query results with ORDER BY Get familiar with standard T-SQL syntax Practice directly in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse 1. Understanding Database and Schema In Fabric Warehouse, objects are commonly organized like this: Warehouse | |-- sales | |-- Customers | |-- Orders | |-- hr | |-- Employees | |-- finance |-- Transactions Schemas help you: Group related tables Manage permissions Organize large systems more effectively 2. Create a Schema Create a schema for the sales dataset: CREATE SCHEMA sales ; Check existing schemas: SELECT * FROM sys . schemas ; 3. Create Tables Create the Customers table: CREATE TABLE sales . Customers ( CustomerID INT , CustomerName VARCHAR ( 100 ), City VARCHAR ( 50 ), Country VARCHAR ( 50 ) ); Create the Orders table: CREATE TABLE sales . Orders ( OrderID INT , CustomerID INT , OrderDate DATE , Amount DECIMAL ( 10 , 2 ) ); 4. Insert Sample Data Customers INSERT INTO sales . Customers VALUES ( 1 , 'John Smith' , 'New York' , 'USA' ), ( 2 , 'Emma Brown' , 'Chicago' , 'USA' ), ( 3 , 'David Wilson' , 'London' , 'UK' ), ( 4 , 'Sophia Taylor' , 'Manchester' , 'UK' ), ( 5 , 'Michael Lee' , 'Singapore' , 'Singapore' ); Orders INSERT INTO sales . Orders VALUES ( 101 , 1 , '2026-01-10' , 1200 . 00 ), ( 102 , 1 , '2026-01-15' , 800 . 00 ), ( 103 , 2 , '2026-01-20' , 2500 . 00 ), ( 104 , 3 , '2026-02-01' , 500 . 00 ), ( 105 , 5 , '2026-02-05' , 3200 . 00 ); 5. SELECT Get all columns: SELECT * FROM sales . Customers ; Get specific columns: SELECT CustomerName , Country FROM sales . Customers ; 6. Alias Rename columns in the output: SELECT CustomerName AS Customer , Country AS Nation FROM sales . Customers ; 7. WHERE Filter rows using conditions. Customers in the USA: SELECT * FROM sales . Customers WHERE Country = 'USA' ; Orders greater than 100

An anonymous security researcher called “Nightmare Eclipse” has been publishing a series of significant security exploits against Microsoft Windows—including one that breaks BitLocker. Microsoft has threatened legal action against the researcher. Lots of recriminations are being traded back and forth.

Microsoft is kicking off its yearly Build developer conference in San Francisco today, sandwiched between the recent Google I/O and Apple's upcoming WWDC event. While tickets to attend Build in person are sold out, the conference is being streamed for free online, with CEO Satya Nadella opening with a keynote at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM […]

Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.