Microsoft 'Set Free' From OpenAI to Pursue Superintelligence as Trump Pushes Military AI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told Venturebeat the company was "set free" from its OpenAI contract roughly six months ago to formally pursue superintelligence, and Microsoft marked the shift by announcing a family of seven in-house MAI models led by MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion-active-parameter reasoning model the company says was trained from scratch on clean, commercially licensed data without distillation from third-party frontier models.
President Trump called for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of AI, per Headtopics, requiring an updated directive on autonomous weapon systems while restricting use of AI to "censor free speech, embed ideological bias, or conduct unlawful surveillance against the American people."
Siemens launched Intelligence Centre X, an industrial AI orchestration platform that combines its Mendix low-code platform with Graph Studio and AI Studio tools to deploy AI applications and agents with traceability and policy controls, according to It Brief India, with early customer Vivix Vidros Planos reporting an 85 percent reduction in production issue resolution time.
A Mayo Clinic study published in The Lancet Digital Health showed that AI models developed with tissue samples, pathology images and clinical data from 672 patients can help classify meningiomas and predict recurrence risk from routine pathology slides, per Newswise, insights typically obtained through DNA methylation profiling that is costly and unavailable in many hospitals.
New data shows four in five Gen Z students believe artificial intelligence will make it harder for them to learn, according to Ksnv, even as they continue using AI-powered tools in the classroom.
Internal company documents surfacing in a major lawsuit reveal that social media platforms deliberately designed school-facing products to hook students rather than educate them, The Washington Times reports, with nearly 1 in 4 teens saying they watch pornography during the school day and the FCC announcing a review of the federal E-Rate program that pumps roughly $2.5 billion annually into school internet access.
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