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Microsoft Launches Decision-1, a Decision Model That Outputs Calibrated Probabilities, Not Text
Why it mattersDecision-1 outputs no text: a single forward pass returns calibrated probabilities for scoring decisions in agent workflows, reportedly 35x faster at P50 and 58% cheaper.
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Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart in Deal Valued Around $7 Billion
Why it mattersA deal at that price would top Decart's nearly $4 billion valuation from May, and its cross-chip software would join the AWS system built around Amazon's own chips.
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Cloudflare Acquires Deno: Deploy Shuts Down in Six Months
Why it mattersDeno had raised $26 million in total, and the shutdown of its hosting service gives existing users a six-month migration window, with Cloudflare Workers as the destination.
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Google's $15 Billion India AI Data Center Sparks Backlash; Company Responds to Water and Power Fears
Why it mattersGoogle's biggest overseas AI infrastructure project is facing organized local opposition for the first time, putting the environmental cost of AI buildouts on the table.
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Nadella Calls for an 'Emergency Brake' on AI Models: Assume Compromise, Let Humans Hit Stop
Why it mattersThe Microsoft chief has for the first time publicly framed AI safety around zero trust, demanding a human-controlled emergency brake as standard.
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Google's $10M Bid for Spirit Airlines' Data to Train AI Draws Fire From 120+ Lawmakers
Why it mattersThe assets are the internal data of a defunct airline — including 100 million emails and 500 million employee Teams messages — to be used for AI training; more than 120 lawmakers have jointly opposed the deal.
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China Issues Guidelines for "New Productive Forces": AI Must Be Safe, Reliable and Controllable
Why it mattersThe guidelines call for technology-monitoring, risk-warning and emergency-response systems to keep AI safe, reliable and controllable, impose strict accountability for major losses from "blind" investment, and name the low-altitude economy a key growth area.
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Super Micro Contractor Pleads Guilty in $2.5B AI-Chip Smuggling Case
Why it mattersIt is the first landmark case to end in a guilty plea since the US began tightening AI-chip export controls on China in 2022; the two other defendants include a Super Micro co-founder.
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Anthropic Open-Sources 11 Knowledge-Work Plugins Covering Sales, Legal and Finance
Why it mattersThe 11 official plugins cover sales, legal, finance, data and other roles; they are plain Markdown and JSON files with no code or build steps, connecting to Slack, Jira and other tools via MCP.
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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: High-Speed Image Generation in 8 Steps
Why it mattersIt cuts generation from dozens of steps to eight and outputs up to 2K; it ships under the Qwen Research License rather than Apache 2.0, so commercial use needs separate licensing.
