Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference

Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance — a substantial increase over its predecessor.

Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google

Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC’s 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator “delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium, and FP8 performance above Google’s seventh generation TPU.” Each Maia 200 chip has more than 100 […]

Nvidia invests $2B to help debt-ridden CoreWeave add 5GW of AI compute

CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia’s products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture.

Experian’s tech chief defends credit scores: ‘We’re not Palantir’
Experian’s tech chief defends credit scores: ‘We’re not Palantir’

Today, I’m talking with Alex Lintner, who is the CEO of technology and software solutions at Experian, the credit reporting company. Experian is one of those multinationals that’s so big and convoluted that it has multiple CEOs all over the world, so Alex and I spent quite a lot of time talking through the Decoder […]

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Nvidia’s new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago

Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users.

That Green ‘Scam’ Is The Top Source Of New U.S. Electricity

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at aiding the power crunch with more efficient buildings and using fuel cells to help curb data center pollution

The AI Paradox: More Humanlike Means Less Autonomous

Even though GenAI is so seemingly humanlike, it generally demands the supervision of a real human at each step – it’s less potentially autonomous than predictive AI.

Your iPhone’s Siri upgrade may be tied to iOS 26.4

Apple is preparing to demo a rebuilt Siri in late February, ahead of an iOS 26.4 beta next month. The upgrade leans on Gemini, runs on Private Cloud Compute, and targets a spring rollout.
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Why Enterprises Are Testing Conversational AI Beyond The CRM

Conversational AI is gaining attention as enterprises look beyond CRMs to spot hesitation risk and momentum before forecasts break.