Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B active parameter reasoning model scoring 97% on AIME 2025.

Microsoft released RAMPART, a pytest-native framework for testing AI agent safety

Released SkillOpt, training agent skills in text space

HuggingFace launches Daily Papers SKILL.md for AI agents to read, search, and fetch research papers.

Released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 AI models

5 new AI data center projects identified.

Hyperscalers including Microsoft plan $700B+ CapEx in 2026

Launched 'Kernels' hub on its platform for sharing and discovering optimized GPU code.

Announced completion of a large-scale project converting 27,000 arXiv papers from PDF to Markdown using an open 5B model.

Julien Chaumond, CTO of Hugging Face, announced the Safetensors transfer via social media.