Microsoft’s First Reasoning Model Won’t Drink From Its Competitors
On the second of June 2026, at Build, Microsoft AI announced something it had been threatening for two years: a flagship reasoning model nobody else helped train. MAI-Thinking-1 is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts decoder with 35 billion active parameters and roughly one...
The resistome was already there
In November 2015, Yi-Yun Liu and colleagues at South China Agricultural University reported the first plasmid-borne colistin-resistance gene, mcr-1, found in E. coli from a pig on a Shanghai farm. Colistin had been the drug of last resort for the worst Gram-negative...