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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform | Microsoft Azure Blog
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work. OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available tomorrow in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work. GPT-5.5 continues
7 Specific Unconventional Things to Do with Language Models – KDnuggets
Image by Editor # Introduction Even though large language models (LLMs) are typically used for boxed, archetypal roles like "writing email messages" or "acting as advanced search engines", they have a lot of hidden potential. It is just a matter of uncovering their hidden potential for creative problem-solving and expanding it into lesser-explored terrains. If
How AI “Brain States” Decode Reality – Neuroscience News
Summary: Do AI chatbots truly understand the world, or are they just repeating text? A new study suggests that AI models develop a mathematical “understanding” of real-world constraints. By using mechanistic interpretability, essentially neuroscience for AI, researchers found that models generate distinct internal “brain states” to categorize events as commonplace, unlikely, impossible, or nonsensical. These
The New MBA Arms Race: How Stanford Is Winning On AI
Abby Alder, Jenni Steigler, Alfredo Mendez, and Celeste Bean, the four MBA student co-founders of AI@GSB At most business schools, artificial intelligence is entering the curriculum through lectures, electives, and case studies. At Stanford Graduate School of Business, it is showing up as something more urgent and far more practical: a working skill students are
How AI Is Rearchitecting Lending
Lending Is Reaching An Inflection Point More than 80% of financial services (FS) AI decision‑makers plan to increase investments in both predictive AI and generative AI (genAI), with most firms expecting double‑digit growth. The immediate focus for the majority of FS leaders remains pragmatic: scaling origination, reducing friction caused by handoffs, and improving risk control.
Google at ICLR 2026
Algorithmic Guarantees for Distilling Supervised and Offline RL Datasets Aaryan Gupta, Rishi Saket, Aravindan Raghuveer An Evolutionary Perspective on Modes of Learning in Transformers Alexander Y. Ku, Thomas L. Griffiths, Stephanie C.Y. Chan An Improved Model-free Decision-estimation Coefficient with Applications in Adversarial MDPs Haolin Liu, Chen-Yu Wei, Julian Zimmert ATLAS: Adaptive Transfer Scaling Laws for
AI Meets Quantum Computing and the Predictions Get Scary Accurate
Scientists have found a way to make AI much better at predicting complex, chaotic systems by tapping into the unique power of quantum computing. Credit: Shutterstock Quantum computing is giving AI a major boost in predicting complex, chaotic systems. The new hybrid approach is more accurate, more stable, and far more efficient. Researchers at UCL
“The image of AI as a tool is far too simple” | D+C – Development + Cooperation
Sustainability and public interest Does artificial intelligence have more positive or negative consequences for society and the planet? Theresa Züger and her research team have developed an audit method to answer this question for individual AI projects. In this interview, she discusses why AI can be problematic even when it is used in projects with








