Microsoft, Etched, and Frontier: AI Field Notes

“Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab and Bridgewater published research testing top models on news filtering investment tasks, with a small custom AI trained on the fund's judgment outscoring every frontier model while costing far less.”

“AI models are scaling faster than the infrastructure that connects them. Kopin and Fabric.AI are developing Neural I/o™, a new optical interconnect architecture that transforms programmable MicroLED pixels into ultra-fast optical transceivers, moving data with lower power and opening a new path beyond traditional elect”

“In this guide, you will learn how to set up and install Claude Tag in Slack. This lets you and your teammates tag @Claude like a real teammate, then have Claude work in the cloud and report back when it is done.”

“Fin is the AI support agent leading teams are deploying today, resolving an average of 76% of customer conversations while cutting costs and complexity. Now available through AWS Marketplace, Fin lets you buy with existing cloud commitments and accelerate procurement.”

“Meta enhanced its brain-reading research tool. Meta’s Brain2Qwerty v2 can analyze raw brain signals and convert them into sentences in real time, while hitting a 61% accuracy rate. It’s Meta’s highest-performing brain-to-text tool yet, and the tech leader says it could benefit people who lost the ability to speak after”

“Just describe the tool you need, and Retool builds it in seconds (no coding required):”

“backed by $2.5B and 6,000 engineers — will help drive enterprise deployment of the company’s AI tools by embedding experts across companies. The move mirrors other major tech firms: AWS committed $1B to its own deployment org just two days earlier, and OpenAI and Anthropic stood up similar ventures in May.”