Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Model Stack To Reduce OpenAI Dependence

Microsoft launches three in-house MAI models for transcription, voice and image generation through Foundry, hedging its ...
eWeek

How to Actually Use AI in 2026: The 5-Level Proficiency Stack

Most people still use ChatGPT like Google. Learn the five-level AI framework that turns prompts into skills, automations, and ...

Microsoft's Agent Stack Confuses Developers While Rivals Simplify

Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.
diginomica

PyTorch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore

Mark Collier briefed me on two updates under embargo at KubeCon Europe 2026 last month: Helion, which opens up GPU kernel ...
IGN

Paranoid android.

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has launched a “comprehensive” audit of all in-game assets after admitting the use of AI-generated images in the final release should have been disclosed. After ...
World Bank

Community and Local Development

Community and local development (CLD) programs empower communities to lead local development processes through control over planning decisions, fund management, and project implementation. Experience ...
Harvard Business Review

Branding in the Age of Social Media

In the era of Facebook and YouTube, brand building has become a vexing challenge. This is not how things were supposed to turn out. A decade ago most companies were heralding the arrival of a new ...