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Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) has announced the preview of a new service, Windows 365 Reserve, which aims to provide enterprises with backups for PCs that are lost, stolen, or simply fail.

It offers a temporary pre-configured Cloud PC, accessible through a browser, that, Microsoft said, “looks and feels like a physical PC, and is accessible from any device, anywhere.”

The Reserve Cloud PC is managed through Microsoft Intune, and includes corporate applications, settings, and security policies, as well as Microsoft 365 apps (assuming the organization subscribes to M365) and OneDrive data sync.

The free preview will begin “soon”, the announcement said, and will run for up to 12 weeks.

There are restrictions, however. Preview participants must have a Windows E3 license, an Intune license, and Microsoft Entra ID P1 (formerly Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1, or AADP1). Sovereign cloud customers are not supported, and participants must perform a few chores, including completing what the sign-up form calls “a set of admin and end user validation scenarios,” and then provide feedback on the experience.

Andrew Sharp, research director at Info-Tech Research Group, is impressed with the concept.

“In preview, the service claims it will allow an administrator to pre-stage a cloud PC, already loaded with the company’s policies, apps and security controls, so it can be handed to a stranded user in minutes,” he said. “Imagine your laptop dies at a client site. Helpdesk fires off a link, you open it in a browser or the Windows app, and you’re back at a familiar, compliant desktop before your coffee gets cold. At least that’s what they’re promising.” 

He likes the idea that Intune manages the virtual devices, so there’s no new control plane to learn, and he also sees potential for other use cases besides providing backups for PCs.

“Reserve could also be a low-friction way to dabble with virtual desktops with minimal commitment,” he noted. However, he does have reservations. “Microsoft’s value proposition is clear: quicker, safer recovery for lost, stolen, or broken devices,” he said. “At the end of the day, IT will still need an operational playbook. How does a user reach support when the primary device fails? Is a physical replacement shipped, or is Reserve the stopgap? Which applications and policies belong in the Reserve image? IT teams will need to sort out those workflows to make Windows 365 Reserve a practical resilience tool and not just another SKU.”

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Scale AI has been attempting to quell fears about its company sovereignty and data security after its ‘acqui-hiring’ by Meta, but customers appear to be defecting anyhow, and competitors are being rewarded with a slice of the limelight.

Meta is investing $14.3 billion in the data labeling and model evaluation startup, which gives the social media giant a 49% stake in the company, and is bringing Scale’s founder and former CEO Alexandr Wang onboard to work on AI “superintelligence.”

Within days of the news of the deal, OpenAI said it would be phasing out its work with Scale, although not explicitly because of the Meta deal. For the last several months, the AI leader has been backing away from the relationship and opting for competitors like Mercor, reportedly because Scale doesn’t have the expertise it needs for its increasingly advanced models.

Others are also purportedly hitting the brakes on their relations with Scale, including xAI and Google, the latter over concerns that Meta could access information about its AI developments.

Scale’s interim CEO Jason Droege has pushed back, emphasizing in a blog post that the company will remain “unequivocally an independent company” and will not provide Meta with access to its internal systems.

Despite this assurance, an analyst understands industry concerns.

“Meta’s move signals a trend toward vertical integration and supplier lock: Owning the data annotation pipeline to secure control over the quality, provenance, and scalability of training data,” said Thomas Randall, AI lead at Info-Tech Research Group. “Moreover, OpenAI’s pullback shows how quickly partnerships in this space can shift based on alignment, data strategy, or concerns about competition.”

Rivals in the data labeling game

Data labeling is a critical step in AI development, as it involves tagging raw data to provide context for models so they can continue to learn and iterate.

The Meta-Scale deal underscores the importance of the capability, and, perhaps counterintuitively, has drawn much more attention to rival, potentially superior data labeling companies. This includes five-year-old startup Surge, which reportedly had more than $1 billion in revenues last year. Others in the growing space include Turing, Snorkel, Invisible, Toloka, CloudFactory, and Label Your Data.

However, Droege asserted that Scale is “one of the only providers capable of serving customers at volume” with the “largest network of experts training AI.” Going forward, the company will focus on building out its applications business units and will continue to be model-agnostic and human-driven, he said.

“The spike in competition from players like Surge, Turing, and Invisible gives enterprises more leverage, but also more responsibility,” said Info-Tech’s Randall. These vendors differ significantly when it comes to workforce models, automation levels, and quality controls, he noted. Enterprise leaders should evaluate providers not just on price or throughput, he advised, but on whether they offer robust annotation auditability, support for domain-specific edge cases, and alignment with ethical AI practices.

“The quality of labeled data is a leading indicator of model performance and a lagging indicator of strategic oversight,” said Randall. “The enterprises that succeed in AI won’t just be the ones with the best models, but the ones with the most intentional, resilient data ecosystems.”

Not just about selecting a labeling company

But the ultimate conversation around data labeling is a little more nuanced and complex, analysts note.

Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst with Amalgam Insights, pointed out that Scale has built its reputation on text and image labeling, and its ability to identify global talent. This is a “powerful fit” for Meta, as Facebook, Instagram, and its other applications and services have massive amounts of data that can be further tagged and indexed to support large language models (LLMs) and AI, based on Meta’s ownership of accounts and digital assets.

“Scale works well with social networks and other media-based websites with self-refreshing and original media creation that can be labeled and used to train models on an ongoing basis,” he noted.

For OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and other LLM providers selling directly to businesses and large organizations, however, the competitive landscape is quickly shifting. It is no longer enough to simply take in and process general data; providers must be able to automate code and conduct higher-level tasks, said Park. When digging deeper into programming, healthcare, legal services, and other specialized fields, they need subject-matter expert data.

Enterprises must be able to contextualize their own internal data and jargon, and have the ability to trust their AI enough to allow it to take action, he said. This means that the AI needs to be trained well enough to understand the common sense ramifications of the requests it receives, and the data that it accesses.

“This training and contextualization ultimately requires specific expertise that is often coming from veteran employees and highly trained professionals, not just from outsourcing firms that can provide scale-up capabilities for specific areas of AI training,” said Park.

Randall agreed that enterprise leaders must treat their data labeling decisions as part of a broader AI governance and operational strategy, not just a technical outsourcing choice. He said his firm’s research on vendor management indicates that organizations should treat labeling vendors as they would treat cloud providers.

That is: “diversify, insist on explicit contractual firewalls around staff mobility and data reuse, and build contingency plans so an acquisition doesn’t strand your model pipeline or expose proprietary data,” he said.

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Honda’s been quietly working on a side hustle.

The private space race has been dominated by SpaceX for years. But Japanese carmaker Honda may be about to throw its hat in the ring after demonstrating a reusable rocket.

Space rockets might seem like a strange side hustle for a company better known for building motorcycles, fuel-efficient cars, and humanoid robots. But the company’s launch vehicle program has been ticking away quietly in the background for a number of years.

In 2021, officials announced that they had been working on a small-satellite rocket for two years and had already developed an engine. But the company has been relatively tight-lipped about the project since then.

Now, it’s taken the aerospace community by surprise after successfully launching a prototype reusable rocket to an altitude of nearly 900 feet and then landing it again just 15 inches from its designated target.

“We are pleased that Honda has made another step forward in our research on reusable rockets with this successful completion of a launch and landing test,” Honda’s global CEO Toshihiro Mibe said in a statement. “We believe that rocket research is a meaningful endeavor that leverages Honda’s technological strengths. Honda will continue to take on new challenges.”

The test vehicle is modest compared to commercial launch vehicles, standing just 21-feet tall and weighing only 1.4 tons fully fueled. It features four retractable legs and aerodynamic fins near the nose of the rocket, similar to those on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, which are presumably responsible for steering and stabilizing the rocket on its descent.

Honda said the development of the rocket was built on core technologies the company has developed in combustion, control systems, and self-driving vehicles. While it didn’t reveal details about the engine, Stephen Clark of Ars Technica writes that the video suggests the rocket burns liquid cryogenic fuels—potentially methane and liquid oxygen.

Honda says the goal of the test flight, which took place on Tuesday in Taiki, Hokkaido and lasted just under a minute, was to demonstrate the key technologies required for a reusable rocket, including flight stabilization during ascent and descent and the ability to land smoothly.

In a video of the launch shared by Honda, the rocket lifts off, retracts its four legs, and then rises smoothly to 890 feet. It then hovers briefly and extends its fins before returning to the launch platform, deploying its legs just before touchdown.

With this successful test flight, Honda joins an elite club of companies that have managed to land a reusable rocket, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and handful of Chinese startups. It’s also beaten Japan’s space agency (JAXA) to the milestone. The agency is developing a reusable rocket called Callisto alongside the French and German space agencies, but it has yet to conduct a test flight.

The company is currently targeting a suborbital launch—where the spacecraft reaches space but doesn’t enter into Earth orbit—by 2029. But Honda says it has yet to decide if it will commercialize the technology.

Nonetheless, the company noted the technology could have synergies with its existing business by making it possible to launch satellite constellations that could help support the “connected car” features of its vehicles. And it is already developing other space technologies including renewable-energy systems and robots designed to work in space.

Whatever their decision, this launch shows the barriers to space are falling rapidly as a growing number of companies develop capabilities necessary to push into Earth orbit and beyond.

The post Honda Surprises Space Industry by Launching and Landing a New Reusable Rocket appeared first on SingularityHub.

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