At Build 2026, Microsoft named Project Polaris — its own in-house, mixture-of-experts coding model running on Maia chips — as the default engine for every GitHub Copilot subscriber starting in August, ending Copilots dependence on OpenAIs GPT-4 Turbo. Microsoft says it beats GPT-4 Turbo on HumanEval and MBPP, with the biggest gains in low-resource languages, and it ships alongside multi-agent VS Code, where an orchestrator decomposes a task and hands pieces to specialist subagents. After years of reselling OpenAI in the editor, the largest software company on earth wants to own the model itself.
Deadline is tracking Steven Spielbergs next film, "Disclosure Day," as casting and plot details emerge around the secretive event movie — a return to the awe-and-dread register that defined his early sci-fi. For an industry short on big original swings, a new Spielberg original is the rare project that bends release calendars and crews around it, and it is shaping up as one of the most closely watched tentpoles in the pipeline.
Vivid Sydney cancelled the rest of its record-setting 1,000-drone season after nearly 90 drones fell from the sky mid-performance, swapping fireworks back in. The what-if: an expedition into the fragile machinery behind modern spectacle, staged at the very place the illusion broke — what it really takes to fly a thousand aircraft in formation over a harbor city, and what it means when the swarm comes down in front of the crowd.