At Build 2026, Microsoft significantly expanded its in-house MAI (Microsoft AI) model family. While much of the public attention focused on Microsoft's ongoing relationship with OpenAI, the more interesting technical story is that Microsoft is increasingly developing its own foundation models across reasoning, coding, image generation, speech synthesis, and transcription.
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What The Technological Republic says about software, state power, and the future of defense tech.
Palantir’s recent X post is worth reading carefully, not because it is subtle, but because it is unusually explicit. In 22 compressed points, the company distilled the argument of The Technological Republic into a public statement of ideology: Silicon Valley owes a debt to the nation, software now…
Steam is working on a new feature that predicts how many FPS a game will achieve on your computer. Here are the details!
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Image collage for the January 2026 issue of “Don’t Blink.” Image by the Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Welcome to “Don’t Blink”! Every month we share developments from around the world that shape people’s ability to participate in the free knowledge movement. In case you blinked last month, here are the most important public policy advocacy topics that have kept the…
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