[AI For Newsroom] #35. Weekly AI For Newsroom Roundup. What if MCP matters more than GEO and AEO?

Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook. Tens of thousands of queries per week already run through them. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wants to “ultimately eliminate” the cost of external models. For Copilot customers, that could mean less performance for the same […]

Southeast Asia tech funding hit $7.4 billion in the first half of 2026, up 130% from a year earlier, according to Tracxn. Singapore absorbed 94% of it, and a single data centre firm accounted for more than half the regional total. Southeast Asia tech funding reached $7.4 billion in the first half of 2026, more […]

OpenAI counters Anthropic’s ARC-AGI-3 record: GPT-5.6 Sol scores 38.3 percent, but only with its own API features instead of the official test setup, where the model landed at 7.8 percent. ARC Prize claims its test environment is provider-neutral, but may have used an outdated API that skewed the comparison with Opus 5. The article OpenAI […]