South Korea's Bets on Native Tech Giants

South Korea Govt. Bets $519 Billion On Samsung, Other Native Giants to Cement Its Lead in the Global AI Race

By Khwaish Manwani | June 29, 2026

South Korea is accelerating artificial intelligence and semiconductors with one of the biggest coordinated funding pushes in its lifetime. The federal authority has declared plans to fund alongside industry tech giants to build a substantial semiconductor complex and new AI data centers, depicting how central chips and computing power have become key to the country’s economy. Supported by Korea’s dominant chipmaker, the plan reflects a comprehensive pattern in the market. Countries with clear artificial intelligence and semiconductor champions are placed better to substantiate capital, boost stock benchmarks, and shape the next phase of the industrial sector. What Is South Korea’s […]

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OpenAI Is Testing Improved Excel and PowerPoint Controls for Codex

By Devanshi Kashyap | June 29, 2026

OpenAI appears to be expanding the capabilities of its AI coding agent, Codex, beyond software development and deeper into workplace productivity. OpenAI is experimenting with special controls for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; this could let Codex interact with those apps in a way that is much more structured and reliable, instead of just leaning on traditional screen automation. OpenAI has not formally announced any of this yet, but the new features point to a big step in their larger AI agent plan. Rather than having Codex just drag a cursor and click around like a regular user, it could get […]

Grok 4.5 Enters Private Beta at Tesla and SpaceX, as Musk Claims AI Rivals Claude Opus

By Devanshi Kashyap | June 28, 2026

Elon Musk just announced that Grok 4.5, xAI’s newest artificial intelligence model, has entered private beta testing at Tesla and SpaceX. It is a big moment for xAI, since they are moving from training their models to actually using them inside Musk’s two tech giants. Right now, only internal teams can use Grok 4.5, but the news gives a peek at what xAI’s next generation AI can do and shows they are serious about matching up with the industry’s best. Musk says the model runs on a much larger, more advanced architecture and has gone through extra training to sharpen […]

Microsoft Launches MAI-Code-1-Flash on GitHub Copilot, Bringing a New In-House AI Coding Model

By Devanshi Kashyap | June 28, 2026

Microsoft has expanded the range of its AI models available in GitHub Copilot with the launch of MAI-Code-1-Flash, which is a new coding focused model developed by the company. The rollout introduces another option for developers using Copilot, highlighting Microsoft’s efforts to build its own AI technologies while enhancing the coding assistant’s growing multi model experience. Adding MAI-Code-1-Flash reflects Microsoft’s ongoing strategy of integrating proprietary AI models into its developer tools. Microsoft is not tying developers to one model, but instead, they are offering more than one way to get things done, and that kind of flexibility can actually change […]

Meta to its staff: “Be more efficient with AI tokens” on Using Gemini for its AI Projects

By Khwaish Manwani | June 28, 2026

Meta reports a cautious use of Google Gemini’s AI models after running into capacity limits. The staff were told to be more cautious with using the tokens, and the company continues to use internal tools for the project. The development focuses on a massive problem in the artificial intelligence industry. Even big companies can face architectural disadvantages when demand exceeds supply. It depicts how devoid compute capacity hinders workloads and pushes the organization to look for distinct methods. It also puts forward a question. If the access stays within constraints, will it still stay with Google or look for other […]

DeepSeek Launches DSpark Boosting – What It Is, How It Boosts Inference Upto 80%

By Khwaish Manwani | June 28, 2026

DeepSeek has launched DSpark, a new mechanism created to help large language models generate quick answers without affecting the model’s intelligence. The core idea is to predict the next token one by one instead of forcing it. DSpark has a semi-autoregressive graph that can predict multiple next tokens ahead and verify the ones that seem genuine. That reduces waste, computation, and back-and-forth oscillation, and helps attend to more users at once. DeepSeek says that this method can better inference speed by roughly 60 to 80 percent in real-time, making it crucial for throughput artificial intelligence systems. Why was DSpark Launched? […]

Claude’s Shift to Agentic Work Is Rewriting Anthropic’s Economic Index

By Khwaish Manwani | June 27, 2026

Anthropic is about to change how it calculates the economic impact of its artificial intelligence by swerving away from conversation logs towards more structured outputs that are a testament to real work. As Claude is extensively used for coding, research, and collaboration, Anthropic states that the conventional chat-based assessments no longer capture what the models are actually doing. Instead of assessing Claude as a message-centric application, the company is now assessing it as a system that produces useful metrics and outputs. This shift depicts a comprehensive view where Claude is becoming a window into how AI boosts economic activity, not […]

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Google Drops Gemini’s AI Insights into Demand Gen Ads

By Devanshi Kashyap | June 27, 2026

Google is rolling out new Gemini AI powered tools for its Demand Gen ad campaigns, making it easier for advertisers to set up and optimize their campaigns. The update gives marketers real time recommendations throughout the process: from picking creative assets to fine tuning their targeting. It is another sign that Google is focusing on artificial intelligence as a key part of its advertising platform. These updates aim to help businesses get past the usual learning curve and boost campaign results across Google’s visual platforms, like YouTube, Discover, Gmail, and the Google Display Network. Instead of leaving advertisers to rely […]

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Epoch & METR Unveil 19-Day MirrorCode AI Test

By Devanshi Kashyap | June 27, 2026

Artificial intelligence keeps getting better at writing code but mostly coding benchmarks focus on pretty small jobs like writing a single function, fixing a bug, or finishing off a code snippet. Those tests do a decent job at comparing different AI models, but they do not really tell us if an AI system can actually handle the bigger, long term task of putting together an entire software application from scratch. That is why Epoch and METR came up with MirrorCode, which is a new benchmark built to see how well AI performs on big, complex software engineering projects. MirrorCode is […]

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Why the White House Gets to Gatekeep Mythos 5

By Devanshi Kashyap | June 27, 2026

The US government’s latest decision on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 has started off another round of debate over who controls access to the world’s most advanced AI models. The Trump administration, after briefly restricting the model’s deployment because of national security concerns, just gave Anthropic the green light to restore access but only for around 100 selected and trusted US organizations. The restrictions stay the same for everyone else. The White House says it’s limiting access to Mythos to keep the AI out of the wrong hands but critics aren’t buying it. The core question is pretty simple: Should it […]

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