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Microsoft released Decision-1 on Alibaba's Qwen foundation just days after OpenAI's API debut, pricing it identically to TypeSafe's Jev while testing the model across its own product lines.
Ryan Dahl's Deno team is joining Cloudflare to consolidate serverless infrastructure efforts, ending Deno's independent runtime and folding its open-source Celld project into Cloudflare's Workerd.
Microsoft is consolidating cloud storage for family plans into a single shared pool starting in 2027, a move that dramatically reduces capacity for accounts with multiple heavy users while the tech industry grapples with a storage crunch.
CoreWeave is rolling out Forge, a full-stack platform designed to help enterprises accelerate the iterative process of deploying, monitoring and refining AI agents in production environments.
The infrastructure provider is moving beyond GPU access to offer integrated training, inference and evaluation capabilities, arguing that AI cloud success depends on openness across models, frameworks and platforms.
In head-to-head testing, Claude Sonnet 5.5 delivered perfect results across three complex coding challenges while costing 42% less than Opus 5.5, though the cheaper pricing model does not always translate to proportional savings.
Industry experts gathered at The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming customer service from a focus on call speed to one emphasizing genuine problem resolution and human-AI collaboration.
Infor is building AI agents tailored to particular sectors to reduce unreliable outputs and add business context to automated workflows. The company grounds its agents in industry processes rather than generic models to improve determinism and cut down on hallucinations.
