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October 20262 stories
Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a large AI model it says is far cheaper to train
Microsoft AI announced MAI-Base-2, a base model with 2.8 trillion parameters in total. It is a mixture-of-experts design, meaning only part of it, 80 billion parameters, is active at a time. Microsoft claims it is 4 to 12 times more efficient in pretraining compute than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base. It follows MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model Microsoft announced in June on top of MAI-Base-1.
Read in the Fri, Oct 16 brief →Microsoft says unpatched Windows PCs will stop getting updates in 2027
Microsoft is replacing the security certificates Windows uses to check that it is talking to the real Windows Update servers. The current certificates expire on May 17 and June 19, 2027. The new ones arrive through the normal monthly updates. Windows 11 25H2 and later need no action. Windows 11 24H2 needs the September 2025 update or newer. Other supported Windows 10 and 11 versions need the July 2026 update or later.
Read in the Sun, Oct 11 brief →