Center for Strategic and International Studies

What to Know About Chinese AI Models

Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the gap with U.S. frontier systems. This analysis examines what their growing ...

Claude’s Sonnet 5 is built to do more on its own and cost you less

Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.

Spatially explicit population model can improve pesticide risk assessments in agricultural landscapes

A team of international scientists and risk assessment experts has developed a foundational blueprint for an innovative ...
IEEE

Artificial Intelligence for Employee Growth: A Unified Model of Factors Influencing AI-Supported Staff Development Through SEM Analysis

Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into professional development offers transformative opportunities for enhancing employee learning, performance, and competence. However, the ...
CNET

What Happens When Apple and Google Team Up to Build AI? 5 New Models

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...
PC Magazine

I Tested Microsoft's New AI Models, and They're Surprisingly Mediocre

Microsoft released a suite of fresh MAI models at Build 2026. They work fine, but they can't compete with Claude and Gemini. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video games for more than a ...
GeekWire

Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks onstage at Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Microsoft’s Build conference was a firehose: in-house AI models, agent-first ...
OPB

Court delays land use ruling against Portland ICE building

The owner of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building successfully lobbied the county court to block the city from ruling on a land use violation against his property, a ruling ...
The Conversation

Building more renewable energy sources means rethinking land use for agriculture and conservation

The state of New York could meet its goal of building 46 gigawatts of large-scale solar by midcentury, but not without making difficult choices in how land is used across the state. That’s the overall ...
Seeking Alpha

Microsoft's new AI models presented at Build should improve margins: Wells Fargo

Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled a suite of new in-house artificial intelligence models at Build, which should reduce its reliance on third-party models and improve margins, according to Wells Fargo. "MSFT ...
Seeking Alpha

Microsoft flexes AI muscles with new in-house models, agents and quantum chips at Build

Microsoft (MSFT) Build showcased the in-house artificial intelligence capabilities of the tech titan as it lessens its reliance on OpenAI (OPENAI). The company announced several new models developed ...
Engadget

Microsoft Build 2026: Live updates on Project Solara, Copilot AI, Windows, agents and more

Developer conference season continues with Microsoft Build today, and we're expecting the company to share news about updates coming to Windows, Copilot and possibly even Office 365 products this ...