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🤖 Microsoft built a brain

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🤖 Microsoft Builds Its Own Brain, Quietly Ghosts OpenAI

  • Microsoft dropped seven in-house models at Build 2026, plus Microsoft Scout - an always-on Teams agent that schedules your meetings and preps your work (so it can watch you slack off in real-time).
  • Between its own models, agents, an AI-designed quantum chip (1,000x reliability??), and Project Solara hardware, Microsoft wants Windows to be the control center for everything. OpenAI who??

📜 Feds Speedrun AI Safety From 90 Days to 30

  • The U.S. government now wants AI labs to voluntarily hand over their top models for a 30-day security check before launch - down from the original 90-day plan they just yeeted.
  • With GPT-5 and Claude Mythos dropping soon, this means faster access to new tech with less red tape. Safety, but make it... rushed?? We love to see it (do we??).

🚀 Alphabet Sells $80B in Stock to Spend $190B on AI

  • Alphabet is dumping $80 BILLION in stock to bankroll a $190 billion AI infrastructure binge this year. Meanwhile Anthropic opened up Claude Mythos, OpenAI's Codex now hosts websites, and Cognition dropped Devin Desktop for local agents.
  • The way that Big Tech just casually spends GDP-sized numbers now- This is exponential-growth-core, bestie. The boom is just getting started. 💀

🪟 Anthropic Cracks the Glasswing Wider Open

  • Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing, handing its powerful Claude Mythos Preview to 150 new organizations across 15 countries — still not public, but the circle of trust just got way bigger.
  • Mythos is the model everyone's waiting on, and Anthropic is letting more orgs kick the tires before any wider release. The "limited preview" is looking less limited by the day 👀

💻 OpenAI's Codex Now Builds AND Hosts Your Stuff

  • OpenAI shipped new Codex updates, including Sites — create and host full websites and apps right from Codex — plus a fresh batch of role-specific plugins across different domains.
  • Codex went from "writes your code" to "writes it, ships it, and hosts it." The vibe-code-to-live-website pipeline is officially one click long 💀

🖥️ Cognition Turns Windsurf Into Devin Desktop

  • Cognition rebranded its Windsurf IDE as Devin Desktop — one surface for running agents locally OR in the cloud, with support for agents like Codex and Claude.
  • One desktop to wrangle all your agents, local or cloud, no matter whose model is under the hood. Agent chaos finally gets a home base.

📈 Famous Investor Says We Just Hit "Lift Off"

  • Legendary investor Elad Gil declared humanity is "likely in very early lift off and exponential," arguing the models that dropped back in December crossed a major technological threshold.
  • When the galaxy-brain money starts saying "exponential" out loud, it's either the most thrilling or most terrifying thing you'll read today. Why not both 💀

🎬 Scorsese Goes AI and Skeptics Are SHOOK

  • Legendary director Martin Scorsese is now an adviser for Black Forest Labs, using their FLUX AI image model to storyboard his next movie. NOT to replace actors - just to share ideas instantly, which he calls "creatively freeing."
  • A Hollywood legend publicly backing AI?? Huge. It's the rare "AI boosts human creativity" take instead of "AI takes your job." No because we actually love to see it. 🙏