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.
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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.
Microsoft Copilot Spent Two Weeks Reading Confidential Emails It Was Supposed to Ignore
A Microsoft 365 Copilot bug (CW1226324) let the AI summarize emails with sensitivity labels in Sent Items and Drafts, bypassing DLP policies for two weeks. The NHS was affected. It's the second time in eight months.
OpenAI Closes In on $100 Billion Mega-Round at $850 Billion Valuation
OpenAI is finalizing the largest private funding round in history, with Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft committing over $100 billion at a valuation exceeding $850 billion.
Microsoft Is Replacing Middle Management With Autonomous Agent Swarms
Microsoft is combining mass layoffs of middle managers with Large Action Model swarms and Copilot autonomous agents that handle resource allocation, project oversight, and multi-step business processes without human supervisors.
