Fortune reports Microsoft is building a "super app" to unify its scattered Copilots. Under 4.5% of 450 million Microsoft 365 seats pay for Copilot. Around 20 million, out of nearly half a billion. The app is pitched as a fix for fragmentation. The open question is whether
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Claude Opus 4.8 on DeepSWE Bench, 58% Pass@1 and 2nd
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Claude Opus 4.8 has landed on DeepSWE Bench, posting a 58% Pass@1 and taking #2 overall behind GPT-5.5. It continues a broader trend: slightly behind on raw score, but among the most reliable and efficient coding models across recent benchmarks.
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OpenAI benchmark scores stagnant since launch
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OpenAI has this interesting benchmark of OpenAI's real engineering bottlenecks, where the scores have not moved since launch over a year ago. Some earlier models did even better than 5.5. I wonder what's going on here.
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Vibe coding empowers non-programmers to create with AI
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Vibe coding isn’t really about writing code — it’s about changing who has the power to create AI-powered development tools are making it possible for people without traditional programming backgrounds to build applications, automate workflows and bring ideas to life faster
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Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: tri-mode model boosts accuracy and throughput
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Can one model switch between three decoding modes to crush both accuracy and throughput? NVIDIA researchers (with Georgia Tech, HKU, and MIT) introduce Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion — a tri-mode language model that unifies autoregressive (AR), diffusion, and self-speculation decoding
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AI: Why Only the Best Product Matters in This Market
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A finance professor summed up every AI valuation in one line: nobody wants to use the eighth best product. That's the whole bet behind Anthropic's $1 trillion. In most industries you can be fourth and still run a good business. In AI, the theory goes, you're one of a tiny
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Microsoft transforms SKILL.md into trainable object with SkillOpt
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Microsoft just turned SKILL .md into a trainable object! SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer for agent skills. Instead of hand-writing or one-shot generating your SKILL .md, SkillOpt treats the skill document as the trainable external state of a frozen agent and optimizes it
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Seedance 2.0 still unbeaten in text-to-video since February
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I still find it crazy that no lab has surpassed Seedance 2.0 in text-to-video, even though Seedance 2.0 was released back in February.
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Perplexity enhances Daily Digest with customizable sources and connectors
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Perplexity keeps working on the Daily Digest feature, allowing users to precisely customise from where and which data needs to be pulled from. Memory, web sources, custom instructions and many connectors will be available.
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Self-supervised learning cuts annotation costs, speeds up AI model deployment.
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Self-supervised learning reduces annotation costs by generating labels from raw data, limiting manual effort. As models scale across business units, pretraining on unlabeled datasets shortens fine-tuning cycles and frees skilled teams for higher-value work. Microblog @antgrasso