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Microsoft has introduced its first in-house image generation model, MAI-Image-1. The model currently ranks ninth among text-to-image systems on LMArena. According to Microsoft AI, MAI-Image-1 was designed to avoid repetitive or overly generic results. The team incorporated feedback from creative industry professionals to fine-tune the model. It performs especially well at producing photorealistic images, capturing details like lighting effects and landscapes, and runs faster than many larger models.

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The model is available for testing on LMArena and will soon be integrated into Copilot and Bing Image Creator. Microsoft emphasizes its focus on safe and responsible outputs. MAI-Image-1 expands the company’s own AI lineup, which also includes the speech generation model MAI-Voice-1 and the chatbot MAI-1-preview.

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"There’s very little moral or political valence to the kinds of discussions or comments that you hear from tech leaders now," says U.S. technology journalist and author Jacob Silverman, who has spent years examining the power structures of Silicon Valley. "There’s almost a sense of relief that they could go back to just being craven capitalists and businessmen again."

In a highly readable interview with Politico Magazine, Silverman describes how many tech CEOs have shed the moral pretensions of the past decade to refocus entirely on profit and political influence. He sees this as the end of a short-lived moral phase in Silicon Valley — the era of self-styled progressive entrepreneurs is over. What has taken hold, he argues, is a utilitarian mindset in which social and political responsibility is consciously abandoned.

His new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, explores how economic cynicism, populism, and technological power now feed into one another.

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OpenAI has raised concerns with EU competition regulators about possible harmful behavior by Google, Microsoft and Apple. According to a report by Bloomberg, the start-up, which is currently valued at USD 500 billion, met with the office of EU Competition Commissioner Teresa Ribera on September 24 and spoke about difficulties in competing with established companies.

OpenAI called on the authorities to intervene to prevent large platforms from retaining customers. The company cited particular concerns in areas such as cloud computing and app development. Access to important data is crucial for competition in AI markets, OpenAI said. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that the criticism was directed at Google, Microsoft and Apple. The EU Commission did not wish to comment. The warning is not yet a formal competition complaint.

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TSMC beat market expectations in the third quarter of 2025 with a 30 percent jump in revenue. The Taiwanese company reported 989.92 billion Taiwan dollars ($32.47 billion), surpassing the 973.26 billion T$ forecast by analysts surveyed by LSEG.

Soaring demand for artificial intelligence applications, especially from customers like Nvidia and Apple, drove the gains. This growth helped offset weaker chip sales in the consumer electronics sector. Revenue landed in the middle of TSMC's July forecast range of $31.8 billion to $33 billion. Full quarterly results are set to be released on October 16.

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