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Plato raises $16 million to build simulated workplaces for training AI
BusinessOctober 28, 2026, 14:17

Plato raises $16 million to build simulated workplaces for training AI

Plato, a San Francisco company that builds simulated workplaces for AI training, has raised a $16 million Series A led by Nava Ventures. The round brings its total…

Microsoft AI's MAI Image 2.7 enters preview at No. 3 on Arena Edit
ModelsOctober 27, 2026, 16:10

Microsoft AI's MAI Image 2.7 enters preview at No. 3 on Arena Edit

Microsoft AI has launched MAI Image 2.7, its latest image editing model, in preview. According to the company, it debuts at No. 3 on Arena Edit and No. 2 on Artificial…

Microsoft's MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash cuts MDASH scan costs by 18%
ModelsOctober 27, 2026, 16:00

Microsoft's MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash cuts MDASH scan costs by 18%

Microsoft AI has released MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash, a vulnerability discovery model that, according to the company, performs comparably to MAI Cyber 1 Flash while costing 18%…

Microsoft AI's MAI-DxO beats physicians in diagnostic tests, published in Science
ResearchOctober 22, 2026, 20:01

Microsoft AI's MAI-DxO beats physicians in diagnostic tests, published in Science

Microsoft AI says its diagnostic system MAI-DxO is 1.7 times more accurate than physicians on common US emergency department presentations. The company's work is…

Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter MoE modelTop story
ModelsOctober 15, 2026, 18:09

Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter MoE model

Microsoft AI says it has completed pre-training MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts (MoE) foundation model with 80 billion active and 2.8 trillion total parameters.…

Rude prompts don't make AI more accurate, Arize tests find, but they can change token costs
ResearchOctober 13, 2026, 16:30

Rude prompts don't make AI more accurate, Arize tests find, but they can change token costs

Being rude to a language model does not reliably improve its answers, according to an Arize AI engineer who tested polite, neutral and hostile prompts across six models.…