In the news | World Economic Forum
AI can be harnessed to protect nature and strengthen food security. Here’s how
Food systems, on land and at sea, are foundational to global economies and human flourishing. They are sources of livelihood for millions of people and provide nutrition for everyone on the planet. Yet today, these systems are under pressure, making…
In the news | Fast Company
What 11 top designers want to redesign in 2026
From look-alike SUVs to AI interfaces, designers from Figma, Microsoft, Pentagram, and more reveal the objects, places, and experiences they’re working to improve this year.
机器人缺大规模数据？VITRA用人类视频重建VLA预训练新范式
编者按：数据稀缺是目前限制通用机器人操作大模型进展的重要因素之一。基于遥操的机器人轨迹获取成本高、多样性不足、本体多变，难以获得支撑大模型预训练的海量数据。在人形机器人的发展路径中，人类可被视为最重要的参考形态之一。因此，直接使用真实的人类数据进行预训练，比用机器人数据具有更大的潜力。因为人类的形态和动作模式更稳定、通用，人类数据规模大、多样化且易于获取，更可能达到规模化，以提升模型的泛化能力。...
In the news | Microsoft Corporate Responsibility
Global AI Adoption in 2025—A Widening Digital Divide
Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the second half of 2025, increasing by 1.2 percentage points compared to the first half of the year, with roughly one in six people worldwide now using generative AI tools, remarkable progress for a…
In the news | Reuters
How AI’s predictive power is helping to prevent deforestation
January 7 - In the past decade, cloud-scale analytics tools have transformed the digital fight against deforestation. Instead of manual reviews of satellite images taking multiple months, land-use change can today be monitored in near-real time. Some artificial intelligence-enabled tools…
In the news | Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith
Special Edition: Key findings from the Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Welcome to a special edition of Tools and Weapons, as Brad Smith and Juan M. Lavista Ferres review the results from Microsoft’s newest AI Diffusion Report. These show the state of global AI usage as we look ahead in 2026,…
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