Microsoft launched Decision-1, a 9B Qwen3.5-based model for AI decision scoring, with details on pricing, benchmarks, and comparisons to rivals.
The article analyzes the absence of a Windows 12 announcement at the recent RTX Spark event, noting growing user frustration with Windows 11 and a muted response to Copilot Plus PCs.
On October 30, 2026, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft announced a policy to support a new mechanism in robots.txt for specifying the use of web content for AI training.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic will adopt a new standard allowing publishers to opt out of AI scraping.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across the US, UK, and Canada, signaling that AI will fundamentally change its workforce size.
A RISC-V CPU has been compiled into the weights of Qwen 3.5 4B, utilizing its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM to execute C and MicroPython for exact arithmetic.