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Microsoft says Maia 300 racks will hold 96 chips and use ~167 kW of power and plans to roll out “multi-gigawatt deployments” of the chip starting next year (www.reuters.com)
23 days ago Microsoft

A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year (www.theinformation.com)
23 days ago Microsoft

Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Google

Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” (www.theverge.com)
23 days ago Microsoft AI

Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (www.engadget.com)
23 days ago Google

Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (www.cnbc.com)
23 days ago Intel AI Singapore

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (www.bbc.com)
23 days ago Microsoft AI

As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human “verification tax” bottleneck (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago Google Tax AI

A look at Uber's retreat in Africa, quitting Nigeria and Uganda abruptly after Tanzania and Ivory Coast, as price-sensitive riders pick Bolt, inDrive, and Yango (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Uber Africa Nigeria Uganda

Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Amazon Startup AI

Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models (commandline.microsoft.com)
24 days ago Microsoft

Nicolas Cage Didn't Sign Amazon's AI Waiver For 'Spider-Noir'. Series Cancelled. (entertainment.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Amazon AI

A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access (www.cbsnews.com)
25 days ago Microsoft AI Medicare Slack

Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago Google

Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5” (www.businessinsider.com)
26 days ago Google

Microsoft: Outdated Windows devices will stop receiving security updates (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago Microsoft

Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price (puck.news)
26 days ago Netflix Layoffs

Microsoft denies JD Vance's claim it replaced thousands of US workers with foreign workers last year, saying most H-1B applications were for existing employees (apnews.com)
27 days ago Microsoft H1B

US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program (yro.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Microsoft Adobe

The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Microsoft Adobe

Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago Google AI

Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models (venturebeat.com)
27 days ago Google Microsoft AI Slack

Amazon retires the Fire brand for tablets after 15 years, replacing it with Alexa Tablets that run Android and ship on October 14, including the $499 12 Pro (www.theverge.com)
27 days ago Android Amazon

Spotify and Joe Rogan renew their multiyear licensing and ad sales deal; sources say the terms are similar to Rogan's last deal, worth $250M, signed in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago Spotify

Microsoft Teams to get support for third-party deepfake detection tools (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago Microsoft

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Google Startup AI

Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts (games.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Google

Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
28 days ago Google

Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599 (hardware.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Microsoft Nvidia

Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C (www.windowscentral.com)
28 days ago Microsoft Apple

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