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Microsofts KI-Offensive: MAI-Modelle und „Frontier Tuning“
Microsoft startet mit der MAI-Modellfamilie eine eigene KI-Offensive. Das Frontier-Modell MAI-Thinking-1 soll mit Konkurrenzmodellen mithalten.
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Microsofts KI-Offensive: MAI-Modelle und „Frontier Tuning“
Microsoft startet mit der MAI-Modellfamilie eine eigene KI-Offensive. Das Frontier-Modell MAI-Thinking-1 soll mit Konkurrenzmodellen mithalten.

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-anno…

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers
"Microsoft Frontier Company" is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/britains-first-furniture-orchard-grows-trees-into-chairs/

Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH)
A British artist has spent 20 years sculpting trees to grow into the shapes of ready-made chairs designed with living branches.

Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and more, told its newspapers to run a three-story package on new chairman David Hoffmann on front pages (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/rep…

Lee Enterprises tells its papers to run front-page profile of chairman and billionaire David Hoffmann this weekend - Poynter
Some at the company say the unusual request raises questions about editorial independence

#Framed #1545
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https://framed.wtf

Adjectives improve color perception in visually impaired people through multisensory stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1718682/full "Auditory stimuli were particularly effective in elicit…

Frontiers | Adjectives improve color perception in visually impaired people through multisensory stimulation
Visually impaired individuals, particularly those who are totally blind, cannot rely on vision to perceive colors and instead depend on other sensory modalit...

Today was open gallery day and we visited the wonderful Silke Schmidt at her studio. She had a special appearance by the local band "Glitza". It was marvelous! https://www.silkeschmidt.eu/home-en.html

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted