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Microsoft has launched MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — a trio of foundational models spanning speech, voice, and image generation that signal the company is no longer content to rely solely on OpenAI.

In an extraordinary act of cross-company solidarity, more than 30 engineers and researchers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind — including chief scientist Jeff Dean — have filed a legal brief defending rival Anthropic after the Pentagon labeled it a national security risk. The fallout is reshaping AI relationships with the U.S. government.

In a landmark ruling, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin blocked the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a 'national security supply chain risk,' calling the move unconstitutional First Amendment retaliation — the first ruling of its kind in AI history.

The Trump administration released a comprehensive National Policy Framework for AI — a seven-pillar blueprint that would give the federal government sweeping power to override state AI laws and cement a pro-innovation regulatory stance.

The Trump administration's National AI Policy Framework proposes to override all state AI laws with a single federal regime — and Washington is already divided on whether it can pass.

Xiaomi officially unveiled MiMo-V2-Pro, a 1-trillion-parameter AI model that secretly topped OpenRouter usage charts under the codename Hunter Alpha before its identity was revealed — outperforming Claude Sonnet 4.6 on coding tasks at one-sixth the cost.