Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference to introduce MAI-Thinking-1, a new reasoning model that represents one of the company's most significant efforts to establish itself as a developer of frontier AI models.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/05/2026
NVIDIA's latest move in humanoid robotics is less about building robots than about defining the software and compute stack behind them.
The Microsoft Build 2026 developer conference highlighted a significant shift in the company's Windows strategy. Rather than presenting artificial intelligence as a collection of standalone features, Microsoft is increasingly positioning Windows as an operating environment for AI agents.
President Donald Trump issued a new executive order on Tuesday aimed at maintaining U.S. AI leadership while addressing the security risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.
Pope Leo XIV entered that debate this week with his first encyclical, a major teaching document that called for robust international regulation of AI. The document, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned against the concentration of AI power in the hands of a small number of technology companies and criticized the use of AI systems in life-or-death decisions.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/26/2026
Google used its I/O developer conference last week to present artificial intelligence agents not as a distant research project, but as a product strategy spanning Search, personal assistants, productivity software, developer tools, and smart glasses.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/26/2026
IBM on Monday announced an expanded portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products, positioning the company to compete more aggressively in a rapidly evolving market where enterprises are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to defend against automated cyber threats.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/20/2026
When Andrej Karpathy announced this week that he was joining Anthropic’s pre-training team, the news resonated far beyond the relatively small circle of researchers who build frontier artificial intelligence systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/20/2026
Google is returning to the smart-glasses market more than a decade after the commercial failure of Google Glass, this time betting that advances in artificial intelligence, miniaturized hardware, and conversational computing can turn wearable devices into a mainstream platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/20/2026
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI ended Monday with a procedural defeat, not a definitive answer to the question at the heart of the case: whether the AI giant betrayed the nonprofit mission on which it was founded.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/19/2026
Google heads into its annual I/O developer conference this week with artificial intelligence positioned at the center of nearly every major product category, from Android phones and search to smart glasses and cloud infrastructure.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/18/2026
A new report from BestBrokers ("Unicorn Startups: AI and HealthTech Post Record-Breaking Valuations in 2026") listing the world's most valuable unicorns shows that AI companies are now among the world's most valuable private startups, with several AI firms reaching valuations above $100 billion.
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI delivered closing arguments Thursday in federal court in Oakland, California, with Musk's lead attorney opening by apologizing to the jury for his client's absence: the Tesla CEO was in Beijing accompanying President Donald Trump on a state visit to China.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/14/2026