Image created with Gemini. Image prompt: A 1983 Russell Mulcahy music video still in an enormous fog-filled Victorian Gothic academy, where a towering arched window of four glowing stained-glass panes in red green blue and yellow is being eclipsed by a perfect black disc with a molten gold corona ring, a nameless woman in a wind-blown luminous white dress standing on a grand staircase below with slow-motion doves exploding toward the lens and glowing-eyed choirmen drifting through the smoke, huge bold chrome serif title MICROSOFT backlit with bloom across the top, 35mm grain, blue-black shadow pierced by blinding white backlight.
Microsoft Replaces OpenAI, Anthropic With Own AI in Some Apps – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-07/microsoft-replaces-openai-anthropic-with-own-ai-in-some-apps
SkillCenter – a new package manager for agent skills It’s like an App Store for AI agents. With just one command you can install ready-made skills and plug them into Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, or any custom agent setup SkillCenter: – Crawls GitHub repos and skill libraries”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2075303983422578740
Best AI coding tools in 2026 ▪️ Claude Code ▪️ OpenAI Codex ▪️ Aider ▪️ Cline ▪️ Replit Agent ▪️ Cursor ▪️ Windsurf ▪️ Gemini Code Assist ▪️ Amazon Q Developer ▪️ Sourcegraph Cody ▪️ GitHub Copilot + Open-source coding models ▪️ Qwen3-Coder / Qwen3-Coder-Next ▪️ Kimi K2.7 Code”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2074172788190134680
Sol is #1 on our two newest benchmarks – CyberBench and Excel Modeling Benchmark (on Cyber, Fable had nearly a 100% refusal rate). It is also the new #1 on Legal Research Bench, ProofBench, SWE-bench, and Terminal-Bench 2.1, proving to be extremely strong on formal reasoning and”
https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2075270644711997581
MAI-1 has no independent benchmarks yet, but the ones they released suggest it is worse than Sonnet 4.6. Not sure it is going to be great as a Copilot at Excel and Outlook, especially as there are already quite good Claude/OpenAI plugins for office using good AI. We will see.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2074595359364411651
⚡ VS Code just shipped a big wave of GitHub Copilot upgrades! 🌐 Build and validate web apps with browser agent tools 🤖 Manage parallel agent workflows with the Agents window (Preview) 🎓 New VS Code Learn courses ✨ Plus Autopilot improvements, model discovery for BYOK, cost”
https://x.com/code/status/2074943855967821851
Optimizing models for use in the GitHub Copilot harness is a continuous process that involves deep partnership with model partners like OpenAI! Post-launch, we also run online experiments to provide continuous improvement to models. This particular experiment improved latency,”
https://x.com/pierceboggan/status/2074180737147027757
Don’t rewrite your CLI for agents – Microsoft for Developers
https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/dont-rewrite-your-cli-for-agents/
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement | Lil’Log
https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
Introducing Ode Poetry. Ode is a wonderful poetry pharmacy that reads you a poem for the moment you’re in. Just tell Ode what you’re feeling, and it uses Microsoft AI audio models to connect you with the same work that poetry expert William Sieghart would recommend. The best”
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2075131152663241036
Exciting news: Meta’s Muse Image just claimed #2 in the Image Arena! Muse Image from @AIatMeta now ranks second only to OpenAI’s GPT Image 2, outperforming Nano Banana, Grok Imagine, MAI Image, and many other leading image models. It holds #2 across the board: Text-to-Image,”
https://x.com/arena/status/2074581979765539153
@OpenAI released GPT 5.6 today and we ran a day 0 benchmark in ParseBench to test improvements in document understanding. The new family of models continues to excel at reading text and tables, but continues to struggle with charts and layout. What’s most interesting is that”
https://x.com/llama_index/status/2075351095258296378
There’s lot of examples where people are trusting AI where they shouldn’t. Trust is very contextual.” Sarah Bird, Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI at Microsoft, on what is “trustworthy AI” and why it matters more now Watch the full conversation to learn why the entire”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2073367258785816853
This is lovely. I had a fun conversation about vastness with a virtual William Sieghart which led to a beautiful reading of Keat’s Endymion, and one about landscapes of memory and led to a reading of Hopkin’s Windhover. We need more beautiful, humane demonstrations of AI.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2075267042765148237
Big QoL for @GoogleAIStudio you can now import projects directly from @github and sync them back. Got to ai(.)studio/build -> click on “+” -> Import from Github”
https://x.com/_philschmid/status/2074894632396177671
bringing your code from @github into ai studio build is as easy as clicking ‘import from github’”
https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/2074887756430426379
Today we are rolling out “import from GitHub” in @GoogleAIStudio Build!! We will automagically take the repo and transform it into a format that is compatible with our runtime and then let you keep iterating on it in AI Studio, deploy it, and more.”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2074902342512845206
AI-powered Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library now open
https://news.microsoft.com/signal/articles/ai-theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library/
Healthcare is the most important application of AI: making humans happier + healthier. Our recently published paper “Public use of a generalist LLM chatbot for health queries” made the front cover of Nature Health. So proud of the team!
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2074152085793145161
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