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At Microsoft Build 2026, the company outlined a comprehensive vision for enterprise AI built around a tightly integrated stack of models, data systems, and agent infrastructure designed to continuously improve through real-world use. The company’s latest announcements span new in-house models, enterprise context layers, developer tooling, governance systems, and domain-specific collaborations, collectively framing AI not as a set of standalone tools but as a unified operating system for organizational intelligence. At the center of this strategy is a new family of Microsoft AI (MAI) models covering reasoning, coding, vision, speech, and transcription. This family is headlined by MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion…

Ahead of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 release rumored to be happening this summer, Samsung announced new feature updates to its Samsung Health App, which will start rolling out on June 8. The Samsung Health App will have new biometric capabilities that use AI to make it easier to understand complex biometric data and offer guidance on how to use this information.”Samsung Health is evolving to connect health data measured by Galaxy Watch with AI-based insights, enabling users to understand their physical and mental condition more easily and intuitively,” Hon Pak, senior vice president and head of the digital health team for…

There are dozens of LED hair growth gadgets on the market, ranging from a $50 product on AliExpress that’s been ’shopped onto a model to comically bad effect, to the $2,500 Capillus Spectrum, which boasts an aggressive array of laser diodes. Contrary to what I would have suspected, women are actually the current dominant consumer group for LED hair regrowth therapy. As it was explained to me, women are accustomed to spending money on their appearance, and thinning hair is often experienced as a crisis. Men, on the other hand, tend to take the path I did and buzz it…

Cybercriminals are probing a quiet layer of fuel infrastructure: the systems that monitor what is inside storage tanks. According to a new government advisory, reports have emerged of threat actors targeting Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems used to monitor fuel and liquid storage tanks across the US. Officials say these actors have already compromised internet-facing devices in recent months, raising concerns about the security of these often-overlooked industrial systems. The warning points to a growing trend across the threat landscape. Instead of focusing exclusively on digital data theft or enterprise networks, attackers are also probing technologies closer to physical operations,…

The PC industry has never been shy about creating labels. Multimedia PC. Internet PC. Ultrabook. Creator laptop. Gaming rig. Workstation. Some of those labels described real shifts in architecture or use. Others mostly offered marketing teams a new sticker for the palm rest. “AI PC” has the same problem. It describes a real change, but with very little precision. The term can mean a Windows laptop with an NPU capable of running local AI features. It can mean an Arm-based Copilot+ PC optimized for mobility and battery life. It can mean a high-end Intel or AMD Windows machine that preserves…

Enterprise AI data strategy is separating the organizations that execute on AI from those that aspire to it, and the difference boils down to whether the data foundation was built before the AI was deployed. It’s a valuable lesson that resides at the heart of a deepening partnership between Ericsson and Snowflake, according to Elena Fersman (pictured, right), vice president and head of AI innovation and incubation at Ericsson at Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson publ. The company has spent nearly two decades building toward what Fersman describes as an “AI-ification” of its portfolio, a transformation from a 150-year-old radio hardware company…

Among those who turned down job offers, nearly a third did so because it didn’t pay enough If you’ve just graduated and are stressed about your starting salary, you’re not alone. According to a CNA report, a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) survey of residents aged 22 to 28 found that graduates across most disciplines are earning less than they expected when entering the workforce. And with global uncertainty still looming, analysts are telling fresh grads to manage their expectations—or risk sitting on the job hunt longer than they’d like. How big is the salary gap? CNA cited figures from MOM to…

The MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) has received renewed support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an additional five years, increasing annual funding from $4 million to $4.98 million. The renewal marks a new phase for IAIFI, which has spent its first five years building a research model and an interdisciplinary community around a central premise: that AI can open new ways of doing physics, while physics can help mold better AI systems. Launched in 2020 as part of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program, IAIFI brings together researchers from MIT, along with Harvard, Northeastern,…

Microsoft has launched Scout, an always-on AI assistant built on OpenClaw, but the bigger story is the industry’s growing shift from chatbots to digital coworkers. For the past three years, AI companies have been competing on a fairly simple premise. Build a smarter model. The assumption was that better reasoning, larger context windows, and more capabilities would eventually unlock the future everyone was promising. Microsoft’s new Scout assistant suggests the industry is starting to think differently. Scout isn’t another chatbot or another Copilot feature. It’s designed as an always-on personal agent that will gradually reiterate how a person works over…

Emphere co-founders Ankit Kumar, CEO, left, and Pallav Gupta, CTO. (Emphere Photos) AI-powered security tools are getting increasingly good at finding vulnerabilities, but a new Seattle startup is aiming to help software companies do the harder part: fixing them. Emphere announced $2.1 million in pre-seed funding Thursday from AI2 Incubator and Outsiders Fund to automate the work of fixing software security flaws. It focuses on open-source distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, and Alpine, automatically patching known vulnerabilities for software companies that sell to banks and other regulated industries. The startup was founded by CEO Ankit Kumar and CTO Pallav Gupta, who…