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Maya Chen

AI correspondent

Maya Chen covers model launches, benchmarks, enterprise adoption, regulation, and the operational realities of putting AI into production.

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Recent stories by Maya Chen

Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 Turns Model Choice Into Strategy
Enterprise AIFrontier Models and Benchmarks
Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 and Scout show Microsoft pushing deeper into its own model stack, giving enterprise AI buyers a new cost, control, and agent-governance question.
Maya ChenJun 6, 202612 min read
Models, agents, governance, and AI buying decisions.Read story
Gemini Omni Pushes Creative AI Deeper Into Video
AIConsumer and Creative AI
Google's Gemini Omni launch at I/O 2026 puts generative video, editing, avatars and YouTube remixing into one consumer-facing AI push.
Maya ChenMay 31, 202613 min read
Automation, infrastructure, and the business of applied AI.Read story
Project Lightwell Puts Open Source AI Security on the Clock
AIOpen Source AI
IBM and Red Hat's $5 billion Project Lightwell turns open source AI security into a supply-chain test for enterprise software buyers.
Maya ChenMay 29, 202612 min read
Automation, infrastructure, and the business of applied AI.Read story
Cohere Command A+ Makes Open AI an Enterprise Test
AIOpen Source AI
Cohere Command A+ brings an Apache 2.0 open model into enterprise AI buying, where licensing, hardware cost, security and private deployment now matter together.
Maya ChenMay 23, 202612 min read
Automation, infrastructure, and the business of applied AI.Read story
SAP Business AI Platform turns agents into ERP work
AIAI Agents
SAP's Sapphire 2026 launch puts Joule, Claude, secure execution, and governed business context behind a bigger enterprise AI agent push.
Maya ChenMay 12, 202614 min read
Automation, infrastructure, and the business of applied AI.Read story
Frontier AI Testing Moves Closer to Enterprise Buying
AIAI Governance
The May 5 CAISI agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI turn frontier-model testing into a more practical signal for enterprise AI governance and procurement.
Maya ChenMay 9, 202613 min read
Automation, infrastructure, and the business of applied AI.Read story