Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...
TechCrunch

Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a ...
PCMag on MSN

I tested all 4 of Microsoft's new AI models. Here's the brutal truth

Microsoft says its new MAI models revealed at Build 2026 are the future. After testing them, I'm not convinced they're ready ...
eWeek

Types of AI Models: A Deep Dive into AI Architecture

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...
CMS Wire

AUI Acquires CX Start-up Quack AI in $15M Deal to Expand Agentic AI for Customer Service

AUI's acquisition of Quack AI signals growing enterprise demand for trainable AI agents that can handle complex customer service tasks autonomously. AUI, developer of the Apollo-1 neuro-symbolic ...
Forbes

AI Models Still Struggle With Reasoning — And Here’s Why

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. What looks like intelligence in AI models may just be memorization. A closer look at benchmarks ...