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- Microsoft · Microsoft adds guard agents to watch rogue AI agentsGuardian Agents monitors the AI agents a company uses. Nadella says firms should not trust model makers' safety promises alone.
- Microsoft · Microsoft pulls out of a UK AI data center dealThe Telegraph reports Microsoft cancelled its anchor-tenant deal to rent about 23,000 Nvidia chips at Nscale's Essex site; Nscale says other deals are unaffected.
- Microsoft · Microsoft builds a giant 2.8 trillion parameter AIMicrosoft's MAI-Base-2 is still in training. Microsoft says it trains 4 to 12 times more efficiently than DeepSeek.
- Microsoft · Microsoft finishes training its giant MAI-Base-2Microsoft says pre-training is done: 2.8 trillion parameters in 38 days, 4 to 12x more efficient than one DeepSeek base model.
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- GitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot is an AI coding helper from GitHub that suggests code and answers questions while you work.
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