Microsoft's Phi-4 Vision Matches Models 10x Its Size
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B - a 15B open-weight multimodal model trained on 240 GPUs in 4 days that competes with 100B+ parameter models on math, science, and GUI understanding.
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OpenAI Builds GitHub Rival, Tensions Rise With Microsoft
OpenAI is developing an internal code repository to replace GitHub, putting the company on a collision course with its biggest backer.
VS Code 1.110 Gives AI Agents Native Browser Control
VS Code 1.110 ships native browser control for AI agents, installable agent plugins with MCP support, persistent session memory, and a new Agent Debug panel.
OpenAI Ships Codex Desktop App for Windows Devs
OpenAI's Codex desktop app hits the Microsoft Store with native Windows sandboxing, PowerShell agents, WinUI skills, and multi-agent parallel execution - no WSL required.
AI Is Killing Desk Jobs and Begging for Electricians
A 439,000-worker construction shortage is delaying AI data centers while electricians command $200K salaries and Big Tech scrambles to fill the gap.
GitHub Copilot Review: The Platform Play That Wants to Own Your Entire Dev Workflow
A hands-on review of GitHub Copilot in 2026 - from agent mode and the new CLI to multi-model support and the five-tier pricing system, testing whether the market leader still deserves its crown.
Seven Tech Giants Will Sign Trump's 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' to Build Their Own Power for AI Data Centers
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will meet at the White House on March 4 to sign a voluntary pledge to build, bring, or buy their own electricity supply for AI data centers - but the agreement has no enforcement mechanism.
Kimi K2.5 vs Phi-4: Mainframe Intelligence vs the Best Pocket Reasoning Model
A detailed comparison of Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter Kimi K2.5 against Microsoft's 14B Phi-4 - the most extreme size gap in frontier AI, with 71x the parameters but vastly different use cases.
Microsoft Phi-4
Microsoft's 14B dense transformer that consistently beats models 5x its size on MATH and GPQA, available under the MIT license for unrestricted commercial use.
Qwen3.5-27B vs Phi-4: When Twice the Parameters Is Not Twice as Obvious
A data-driven comparison of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-27B and Microsoft's Phi-4 - a 27B hybrid architecture versus a 14B STEM specialist, testing whether raw parameter count or training efficiency wins in practice.
Vercel Open-Sources Chat SDK - One Codebase for Slack, Teams, Discord, and Four More Platforms
Vercel releases the Chat SDK, a TypeScript library installable via 'npm i chat' that lets developers write chatbot logic once and deploy to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear. MIT licensed, AI-provider agnostic, now in public beta.
Big Tech Will Spend $650 Billion on AI This Year - Bridgewater Says the Boom Just Got Dangerous
Bridgewater Associates warns AI capex has entered a 'dangerous phase' as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft commit $650 billion to infrastructure in 2026, up 67% from last year.
