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US gives federal AI evaluator early access to Google, Microsoft, xAI models
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to evaluate models pre-release. Trump-administration oversight expands. Anthropic's status is unclear.
Microsoft Build 2026 lands June 2-3. Agent infrastructure is the theme.
Build runs June 2-3 with Satya Nadella's keynote opening day one. Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Azure HorizonDB are already announced. The expected Copilot Studio deep-dive will determine whether Microsoft's agent story is real or just demoware.
Microsoft Foundry adds Claude. The OpenAI-only era is over.
Microsoft made Anthropic's Claude models available in Microsoft Foundry on April 27, ending the OpenAI exclusivity that has defined Azure's AI strategy since 2023.
Microsoft's 2026 capex hits $150B. AI infrastructure now dominates the balance sheet.
Microsoft's 2026 capital expenditure runs to roughly $150B, the bulk allocated to AI compute capacity. The number reframes Microsoft as a hyperscaler-first business with software as the monetisation layer.
TypeScript 6.0 ships as the last JavaScript-based release
TypeScript 6.0 landed March 23 with strict mode on by default, ESM as default module, and ES5 deprecated. Microsoft has confirmed 6.0 is the final JavaScript-based release before the Go-native 7.0 compiler ships.