NEW: Microsoft introduced its new Maia 300 chip, with Satya Nadella calling it the "biggest bet yet on our own silicon." The company says it gets 40% more AI work out of the same power than top chips today, and it will start running Microsoft's AI in 2027.
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Commentary Clarifies Timing of AlphaProof Nexus Results and Science Publication
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Everyone is now sharing Google AlphaProof Nexus results as if they were new today, but these are reheated results they had already announced in May this year. It's simply that they have now published the paper in Science, [Traduit de FR vers EN]
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Meta Teases a Model Codenamed Watermelon
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META 🔥: An upcoming “Watermelon” model from Meta has been teased! Vibes check – would that mean that training has been finalised? Soon? 👀
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Commentary Anticipates a Meta Model Release From Employee Hints
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This sounds and reads to me like Meta is about to release a major new model, especially since even Meta employees are hinting at it!
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 12 octobre 2026
I think this week is going to be really good and exciting! pic.twitter.com/90ElnD0vhA pic.twitter.com/mzLkKknOSmThis sounds and reads to me like Meta is about to release a major new model, especially since even Meta employees are hinting at it! I think this week is going to be really good and exciting! https://
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Microsoft Plans Multi-Gigawatt Maia Inference Expansion
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Now its getting interesting! Microsoft is taking on Nvidia in AI inference with a multi-gigawatt expansion of its own chips. Starting in 2027, Microsoft plans to make Azure Maia the primary inference system for its own products and services. Maia 200 already serves production
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Google Labs Leader Explains How Specific AI Products Originated
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My biggest takeaways from @JoshWoodward (Head of @Google Labs, the Gemini App, and Google AI Studio) 1. The best ideas almost never come from a design sprint or brainstorm. At Google Labs, the ideas that became NotebookLM, Google Flow, Google Beam, and AI Studio all started with
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Microsoft Maia 300 Targets Long-Context Reasoning and Latency-Sensitive Inference
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MICROSOFT 🔥: Miai silicon family is scaling to multi-gigawatt deployments in 2027 along with a new Maia 300 chip being announced! > Maia 300 is a complete intelligent system designed for the new types of AI workloads emerging today: Long-context reasoning, latency-sensitive
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Microsoft Expands Into AI Chip Production With Maia
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Microsoft is moving into AI chip production #Maia [Traduit de FR vers EN]
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Gemini Agent Plans Tasks and Runs Subagents Persistently in the Cloud
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Google introduced Gemini agent. Hand it an objective and it plans the work, spins up subagents, and keeps going in the cloud after you log off. It can route jobs across Gemini and Claude models. Businesses get it first.
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Googlebook Integrates Gemini Through a Cursor-Level Magic Pointer
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Googlebook laptops went on sale in the US on Oct 4. They pair Android apps with the Chrome browser and put Gemini right under your cursor with Magic Pointer. Five models from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, starting at $899.https://t.co/7BM189N5m6
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 12 octobre 2026Googlebook laptops went on sale in the US on Oct 4. They pair Android apps with the Chrome browser and put Gemini right under your cursor with Magic Pointer. Five models from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, starting at $899.