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Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will…

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The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet – but in reality it’s probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline…

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Bill Gates Warns AI Will Erase Jobs, Urges US-Led Rules [2026]

Bill Gates used a rare primetime interview to deliver one of his bluntest AI warnings yet, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that artificial intelligence could wipe out jobs faster than new ones appear, and that the United States needs binding rules, not corporate promises, to keep the technology from spiraling into catastrophe. The Microsoft co-founder’s…

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4G Beats 5G for Calls: Seoul Hits 1.06s Setup [2026]

A new report from Ookla®, published October 4, 2026, is upending a core assumption of the 5G era: that newer radio technology automatically means better phone calls. Ookla’s study, titled “The 5G Voice Paradox: Why VoNR Isn’t Always Better (Yet),” found that in most markets tested, the decade-old VoLTE standard running on 4G still connects…

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