The US AI rulebook is being rewritten. Your compliance team can't wait
America's AI regulatory landscape just had a month that made legal counsel everywhere reach for stronger coffee. Colorado's landmark AI Act, once celebrated as the country's first comprehensive state AI law, was gutted and replaced before it ever took effect.
This Week in AI: The Next-Gen Recommendation Experience
This week Miguel Fierro, a former Microsoft principal researcher who recently founded his own company, RecoMind, joined data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos to talk about the state of recommendation systems. Christina also ran through the latest AI news she’s been watching, from Anthropic’s...
Brain-inspired chip runs near absolute zero and could transform quantum computing
Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have created a remarkable new type of brain-inspired chip that can function just above absolute zero, one of the coldest environments imaginable. By using a standard silicon carbide transistor in a completely new way, the team made a single device behave lik...
On this week’s episode, host and the founder of AI advisory firm Intelligence Briefing Andreas Welsch brought together Maya Mikhailov, cofounder and CEO of Savvi AI, and Doug Shannon, generative AI and intelligent automation leader, to cover a handful of interconnected topics that practitioners are ...
Boards want AI roadmaps. Competitors are shipping AI features. And 74% of companies still can't make it pay. This piece breaks down the eight-point framework that separates disciplined AI adoption from expensive noise.
DJ Patil has spent the past several months on a listening tour. Wherever he travels, he finds a local university, pings faculty and students and anyone else who wants to show up, and runs an AMA. He’s heard from grad students who can’t get callbacks, hospital administrators dealing with federal poli...
AI Sovereignty and the Architecture of Participation
Adam Tooze recently shared a piece from The Economist about Brazil’s push for what it calls “medical sovereignty,” the determination to make its own vaccines and the active ingredients that go into its medicines rather than depend on supply chains it doesn’t control. Brazil already produces a large ...
AI agents keep breaking in production. Here's why nobody's fixed it yet.
The gap between what agentic AI promises and what it actually delivers in live environments is now one of the most consequential engineering problems in the industry. It is also, frustratingly, one that the field has been slow to name precisely, let alone fix...
The 3 reasons your AI never makes it to production
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a throughput problem. And I think that distinction matters a lot when you start talking about how to actually get AI working in production.
Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI
Vega turns a full credential into a single proof, sharing only what is needed and nothing more, with performance that works in real apps.
The post Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI appeared first on Microsoft Research.
AI agents keep breaking in production. Here's why nobody's fixed it yet
78% of enterprises have an AI agent pilot running. Only 14% have successfully scaled one. The gap isn't a model problem. It's an engineering one (and it's hiding in plain sight....)
Forget electrons, this breakthrough uses light-matter particles to power AI
Researchers at Penn have created a hybrid light-matter particle that could dramatically speed up AI computing while using far less energy. The breakthrough may help replace some electronic computing processes with ultra-efficient light-based technology.
NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves
NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance levels hundreds of times beyond current spaceflight computers while surviving punishing tests designed...
Your data engineers may be more influential than you think
The data engineer has gone from a largely behind-the-scenes role to one of the most strategically important positions in a modern technology organization. The leaders who understand why are making significantly better infrastructure decisions than the ones who do not.
Why Doesn’t Anyone Teach Developers About Context Management?
This is the sixth article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, and part five here. I think context management is one of the most important skills in AI-driven development, and it’s weird that compared to oth...
The future AI team: What enterprise AI organizations may look like by 2030
Ask most enterprises what their AI team looks like in 2030 and you will get a blank stare followed by a reference to their current headcount.
That is understandable. It is also a problem. Because the AI team of 2030 is going to look very little like the AI team of today...
I just sat in a room full of data engineers the other week who were worrying about AI automating them out of work the same way auto manufacturing in Detroit was upended half a century ago. All AI. All the time. That’s what technology professionals are talking about. Data scientists, data engineers, ...
New quantum algorithm solves “impossible” materials problem in seconds
A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum materials known as quasicrystals, opening the door to powerful new quantum devices and ultra-effici...
Your “um” and pauses could reveal early dementia risk
The little pauses, “ums,” and moments when you struggle to find the right word may reveal far more about your brain than anyone realized. Researchers discovered that everyday speech patterns are closely tied to executive function — the mental system that powers memory, planning, focus, and flexible ...
Steve Yegge’s article about programmer burnout (“The AI Vampire”) along with Margaret Storey’s article about Cognitive Debt started an ongoing conversation about programmer fatigue and software quality—two topics that should be linked, but often aren’t. Steve argues that programming constantly with ...