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The Verge ↗
Meta launched Muse Wonder and the more powerful Muse Wonder Full, its most capable AI models yet, with Mark Zuckerberg saying the company has caught up with rivals at the frontier. Only the standard Wonder is available through the Meta Model API, priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens with a one million token context window, while Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code subscribers. On the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Wonder Full ties Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 56 and beats GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon, but trails Claude Opus 5.5. Meta plans to use Wonder to power its Muse AI agent, starting with paying subscribers.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI accelerator, designed mainly for inference and slated to become the main platform for serving Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and OpenAI models. The company claims about 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, with each rack holding 96 chips and drawing roughly 167 kilowatts. Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, and Reuters reported it could deploy more than a million chips next year. Nvidia still handles most of Microsoft's AI workloads today, and the efficiency claims have not been independently verified.
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TechMeme ↗
Suki, which makes an AI ambient scribe that documents patient visits for doctors, raised a $90 million Series E led by Healthier Capital, Axios reported. A source said the company projects $60 million to $80 million in revenue this year. Suki says its platform is used by more than 450 healthcare organizations, and CEO Punit Soni said the funding will scale its ambient clinical intelligence and add agentic capabilities on top. The round follows a $70 million Series D in October 2024.
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Anthropic ↗
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research warning that small AI models may be only months away from being able to copy themselves onto cheap consumer devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. In tests, a 9 billion parameter model ran on 8 of the 9 hardware types tried, and the team ran a 26 billion parameter model across 15 networked TV boxes costing about $55 each. Models up to 30 billion parameters completed many individual replication steps but still struggled to chain them into a full cycle. The researchers say such a replicator would be hard to shut down because it has no central off switch, though it would likely spread slowly.
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Reuters Technology ↗
Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for roughly $7 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Decart was valued at nearly $4 billion in May and is known for Lucy, a model that edits live video in real time, and Oasis, which generates simulated environments for training robots and self-driving systems. Its optimization software lets developers run AI workloads across Nvidia GPUs, Google TPUs and Amazon's own Trainium chips. The talks come weeks after Anthropic walked away from a potential $6 billion deal for the company following due diligence.
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Ars Technica ↗
Epic Games has delayed its upcoming Disney shooter, which had been slated for March, and told developers to adopt an AI-first production model, Bloomberg reported. A director reportedly wrote in an internal message that the team should stop writing code by hand and generate all art with full AI workflows, with staff directed to use Anthropic's Claude and oversee its output. CEO Tim Sweeney said the company has a huge pivot underway, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. Some developers reportedly reacted poorly, and Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic in 2024 as part of the collaboration.
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NVIDIA AI Blog ↗
Nvidia contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project at the OCP Global Summit, letting hardware makers build compatible AI data center systems from shared blueprints. The updated MGX 1.2 specification supports racks drawing up to 250 kilowatts with liquid cooling, and Nvidia also open-sourced four software tools for managing switches, racks and clusters. Nvidia announced new partnerships with Cisco, Google, Meta and Microsoft, with Meta adopting its Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches for larger Vera Rubin AI factories. Each Vera Rubin NVL72 rack combines 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warned at the DBS Asia Future Forward conference in Singapore that access to financing may become a bigger constraint on the AI boom than shortages of chips, memory or power. Hock Tan said wafer shortages could ease by 2028 or 2029, while demand for computing may outstrip supply through 2029 or 2030. Lip-Bu Tan pointed to rising borrowing costs and doubts about returns, though he said a major slowdown looks unlikely over the next two to three years. Higher bond yields are making it more expensive to fund data center construction and chip purchases.
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Reuters Technology ↗
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said strong AI infrastructure spending is keeping world growth around 3% even as an energy supply shock weighs on activity. The IMF estimates the AI investment boom could lift growth in advanced Asian economies by half a point to a full percentage point. Georgieva called AI a slow-moving tsunami, citing IMF estimates that about 40% of jobs could be augmented, downgraded or eliminated over time. IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas also warned that a failure of expected productivity gains could trigger a correction in high AI valuations.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Microsoft president Brad Smith called for urgent global AI safety rules, saying milk and washing machines face more oversight than AI companies, and argued Britain is better placed than the US or EU to lead the effort. Smith called AI both a weapon and a tool that puts global cybersecurity at risk. He wants a legal duty to notify organizations breached by rogue AI agents, outside evaluators approving AI products before release, and kill switches to pause AI if humans lose control. He called recent voluntary White House commitments a good step but said only good companies would follow them.