Microsoft-Decision-1 chooses among options you give it and returns a calibrated probability for each, instead of writing text. It's built on a Chinese open model, Qwen3.5-9B, and is aimed at the cheap, fast decisions inside AI systems.
Nokia and Microsoft announced an agentic unified data foundation for telecom. The release says agents identify anomalies, run root cause analyses, and recommend actions โ while maintaining human oversight. It claims general availability and names zero customers, on a day Nokia's stock had at least four other things moving it.
Four safety announcements landed in four days, endorsed by every major lab within hours. In the same week DeepSeek cut prices again, at a measured 105x gap to Claude Fable. Sorting the announcements by what they actually cost the announcer separates two of them from the rest โ and the PLA attribution most outlets ran is not what Anthropic's report says.
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