Microsoft launches its own AI models to take on OpenAI and Anthropic
https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/06/03/microsoft-launches-its-own-ai-models-to-take-on-openai-and-anthropic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative

The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by Euractiv.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-parliament-to-ditch-google-for-european-alternative/

Here's a fun blog post about bytecode VMs in surprising places.

Mildly hot take of mine: a bytecode VM in a GPU kernel is not as bad of an idea as one might think, and in some cases it can actually be the best solution. Fun examples in thread: (1/5)

https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the microcode for the Intel 80386 has been decoded.

It was a group effort by a bunch of talented people to extract and correct the physical bits, but the major work of decoding them was done by reenigne - you may know him from such incredible PC demos as 8088 MPH and Area 5150, as well as being the person who decoded the 8088 microcode previously.

Please, check out his writeup.

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in natural language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)

He said a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down critical infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.

Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.

#AI #microsoft #LLMs

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