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Microsoft Built Its Own AI Chip and Plans to Run Its Office Suite on It
The Maia 300 is designed to run frontier AI models inside Azure data centres, reducing Microsoft's reliance on outside chip suppliers and lowering the cost of every AI answer it serves.
OpenAI dominated our week while agents coverage cooled
AI2Day ran 38 stories between 5 and 11 October 2026, down from 42 the week before. OpenAI took 15 of them. The agents beat that filled the previous week shrank by six.
Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price
The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.
Manus Raised $500 Million After China Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The AI agent startup is back as an independent company, freshly funded and building its own technology stack, even as its cautionary tale about cross-border dealmaking lingers.
TSMC Pulls In $16 Billion for September as AI Chip Demand Keeps Climbing
The world's largest contract chipmaker recorded a 54.6% year-on-year sales rise for September, extending a run of strong monthly figures driven by demand for the chips that power artificial intelligence.
Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts a Full AI Workstation in a Portable Chassis
The Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping October 16, runs on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and can hold up to 128 GB of shared memory, letting one machine handle gaming, local AI models, and professional creative work at the same time.
Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Data Centre Boom Ends in a Bailout. He's Built a Crypto Project for That Moment.
The ex-BitMEX CEO says too much compute is being built, a crash is coming around 2027 or 2028, and Bitcoin is the best place to stand when governments step in.
AI as a business story quadrupled on our site this week. Here's what we actually wrote about.
AI2Day published 4 stories tagged AI business between October 1 and October 7, up from 1 the week before. Four different outlets carried the thread. That is signal worth checking, not a trend worth betting on.
Sam Altman Called Cerebras a 'Close Partner' and Stopped a 20% Slide
Four sentences from OpenAI's CEO lifted Cerebras stock 6.3% in premarket trading. The margin numbers still need to improve before the rally means anything.
Open source went from a whisper to a chorus in our pages
AI2Day ran five open-source AI stories in the week of 29 September to 6 October 2026, up from one the week before. Three different outlets carried the news, so this is not one newsroom with an obsession.
Google's AI chief says the biggest breakthroughs happen where AI meets biology, energy, and manufacturing
Yossi Matias, who leads Google Research, told MIT Technology Review's EmTech Future 2026 that AI's real power shows up not inside any single field but at the borders between them. What that means for ordinary workers.
Enterprise AI Stopped Giving Advice. Now It's Making the Calls.
Enterprise AI has moved past forecasting. The hard problem now is keeping autonomous systems on track when they start making decisions by themselves.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Knew Better.
A new benchmark from Microsoft and Hugging Face runs AI agents through real business tasks 20 times each, then checks the records they leave behind. Most models fail far more often than a single test suggests.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won't Go Public Until Its AI Is Safe Enough
The CEO has tied an IPO to safety milestones with no date attached. That is a significant promise from a company that needs cash and has had a rough few weeks.
Enterprise AI Is No Longer a Tool. It Is the Operation.
Global AI investment is heading for $2.5 trillion in 2026, yet most enterprises are still tripping over disconnected systems. The real problem is structural, and the fix is harder than buying better models.