Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365.
When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365’s security and governance boundaries.
yo so just to recap the week:
- google released gemini 3.1 but it disappointed tf out of people who claimed its not as good as they advertise
- BUT THEN google dropped an AI song generation model which kinda slaps (Lyria 3) AND a new feature that 1-shots product photoshoots putting photographers (and fashion models) out of a job (Google Pomelli)
- Microsoft pioneered a way to STORE DATA ON GLASS - stores data for up to 10,000 fucking years (🤯) and way cheaper than using silica.
- Taalus fused an ai model DIRECTLY into silicon processing 17,000 tokens PER SECOND which is 17X faster than openai’s quickest model but 10 TIMES CHEAPER than nvidia blackwell gpus. (smaller models tho)
- Apple is releasing 3 new AI devices: glasses, airpods with cameras and a pendant.
- anthropic wiped $10B off the stock market after launching an ai that finds and help fixes security flaws in your code. cybersecurity stocks dumped <1 hour after launch.
- BUT THEN Pentagon threatened to blacklist anthropic for failing to provide them uncensored access to claude.
- xAI dropped grok 4.20 spawning 16 specialised ai agents that work together to solve any prompt. the model self-improves EVERY WEEK.
- scientists discovered dna in meteorites suggesting humans could’ve originated from outer space (what)
- Meta dropped Manus Agents going head-to-head with OpenClaw.
- a cardiologist won 3rd-place in anthropic’s hackathon after vibe coding an app that helps his patients understand and act on their medical results. fucking hero.
- china announced a cure for diabetes 1 & 2 after creating stem cells that make insulin
- Moonshot labs is raising $500M immediately after raising $700M LAST WEEK.
- ex-Deepmind researcher raised europes LARGEST ever seed round $1B at $4B back right as europe announces $13B new fund to catch up with america.
- Stripe’s ai agents autonomously merged 1300 pull requests (up 30% from last week) suggesting top companies are now recursively improving using AI.
dear f*cking goodness GOODNIGHT
The biggest infrastructure supercycle in history is here.
We are building the foundation of intelligence itself, with tools, models, silicon and light.
This is our moonshot.
Excited to present Runtime 2025 from @a16z AI x Infra.
The Most and Least Expensive Land in America
Average market value of private land across the contiguous US. Estimated from over 6m land sales (2000–2019)
Source: Nolte, C. (2020). High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States.
They solved environmental consistency with Genie 3, and this was an emergent capability. You can see the trees remain the same even after being out of line of sight. Visual memory extends back one minute now. Google is on a steady path to a real world simulator.