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King Charles hosted a private summit on AI with major AI executives and U.K. government officials at Dumfries House. He urged leaders to find control “before it’s too late,” citing rapid development. The meeting emphasized regulation, international cooperation, and keeping AI in the service of humanity, while ongoing safety and development disputes in the U.S. and Europe continue.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft’s MAI-Base-2 announcement sets the pace for the day, shifting attention from flashy model demos to the plumbing that makes large language models practical. The 2T-parameter base model is designed to become a full LLM after additional training, with 80B parameters activated per prompt. Microsoft says it trained the model for 38 days on 16,000 Nvidia GB200 chips using 50T tokens, and that MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient. The company’s licensing plan—availability through “trusted partners” on Azure—signals a platform strategy: build a reusable foundation that can spawn multiple task-specific LLM lines, rather than betting everything on a single downstream model.
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