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Microsoft says Maia 300 chip will run its AI services from 2027
Microsoft will make its own Maia chips the primary system for running AI in its products starting in 2027. The company set out the plan on Monday as it unveiled the Maia 300, the third generation of its custom AI chip.
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Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card.
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Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake.
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Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang will present the Surface Laptop Ultra in San Francisco on Wednesday, the first Surface built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. The laptop is designed to let AI agents run on the device rather than in the cloud, analysts told Reuters.
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