On May 6, 2026, ISG named Thermo Fisher's PPD a Leader CRO for AI in clinical development, validating the OpenAI pact announced nine months earlier.
Google Cloud's State of AI Infrastructure report found 83% of 1,400 IT leaders need upgrades for agentic AI, with 62% paying an inference tax.
Microsoft is routing Excel and Outlook AI prompts to its own MAI models, days after cutting 4,800 jobs and unveiling a $2.5B AI deployment push.
Kazakhstan brought its Nvidia-backed Data Center Valley, Astana Hub pipeline, and an ITU pact to its national pavilion at Geneva's AI for Good 2026.
Beijing's MOFCOM met with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai on possibly restricting overseas access to China's top AI models, including those not yet released.
SISB rolls out an OECD-aligned AI literacy curriculum from Grade 1 in August, targeting 4,800 students by year-end 2026 and freezing tuition to lift Thai enrollment.
Microsoft's $2.5 billion Frontier Company embeds 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise customers, the largest of four convergent bets on embedded deployment.
Microsoft unveiled seven MAI models at Build 2026, including MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model that matches Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 on coding at lower cost.
ISU secured UGC approval on 24 June 2026 for a 152-credit BSc Engineering in AI and Data Science under the Faculty of Advanced Science and Computing.
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