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Nº 090
09 JUN 2026
The $13 Billion Internship Is Over. Microsoft Built Its Own AI.
MAI-Thinking-1 outperforms GPT-5.5 at one-tenth the cost, trained from scratch with zero OpenAI data. The partnership isn't dead yet — but it just became optional.
3 MIN READ
Nº 085
09 JUN 2026
Halo Is on PS5 Now. Gears Isn’t. That’s the Whole Point.
Microsoft shipped Master Chief to PlayStation and locked Gears: E-Day to Xbox on the same day. That's not a contradiction. The most coherent thing Xbox has said in three years.
3 MIN READ
Nº 046
06 MAY 2026
The AI Companies Invited the Government In. Don’t Call It Oversight.
Microsoft, Google, and xAI signed pre-deployment testing agreements with NIST this week. The industry is calling it accountability. It's closer to controlled access.
3 MIN READ
Nº 044
06 MAY 2026
The AI Race Everyone Is Watching Is the Wrong One. Look at Microsoft.
Microsoft posted a $37 billion annualized AI run rate, up 123% year-over-year. Satya Nadella said Copilot is now used like Outlook. That sentence deserves more attention than it got.
3 MIN READ
Nº 028
29 APR 2026
The God King Bleeds The OpenAI Convergence Crisis
OpenAI isn't just missing targets — it's losing its status as the inevitable center of the AI universe. When the exclusivity ends and the burn rate stays, the IPO math stops working.
3 MIN READ
Nº 015
27 APR 2026
Xbox Admitted Players Are Frustrated. That’s More Interesting Than the Name Change.
Xbox admitted players are frustrated. The rebrand itself is cosmetic — but the candor behind it might actually be different.
4 MIN READ
