#Microsoft

'The Bank of England warned that surging AI investments may be inflating into a fragile bubble, urging investors to weigh valuations, infrastructure costs and uneven productivity gains.'

'Microsoft's NLWeb and Cloudflare's AutoRAG let websites answer natural language questions directly, creating conversational interfaces that change how users discover and interact with content.'

'Microsoft launched MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, showcasing subsecond voice synthesis and its first self-trained foundation model, and signaling a move toward AI independence.'

'Microsoft released VibeVoice 1.5B, an open source TTS model that generates up to 90 minutes of expressive audio with up to four speakers and supports cross lingual and singing synthesis.'

Microsoft introduces Phi-4-mini-Flash-Reasoning, a compact 3.8B parameter model optimized for efficient long-context reasoning and fast inference, outperforming previous models on complex benchmarks.

Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, making its advanced AI coding features freely available to all developers under the MIT license.

Microsoft launches NLWeb, an open-source project enabling developers to easily convert any website into an AI-powered app with natural language interfaces, simplifying conversational AI integration for web publishers.

Microsoft researchers have integrated DiskANN into Azure Cosmos DB to create a scalable, cost-efficient vector search system with low latency, improving semantic search capabilities within transactional databases.

Microsoft's AI Red Team has released a detailed taxonomy outlining failure modes in autonomous AI systems, offering critical insights and mitigation strategies to enhance security and safety.

OpenAI has expressed willingness to purchase Google Chrome if a court forces Google to sell it amid an ongoing antitrust trial. This move could position OpenAI as a major competitor in the browser and AI space.