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Microsoft Puts a Name to Its Developer-First Windows: Project Zenith
A specially tuned version of Windows is coming to high-powered PCs with at least 64GB of memory. Developers get a clean, tool-ready setup out of the box. The rest of us get a reminder of how cluttered the default Windows experience still is.

AMD Says AI Now Writes 30% of Its Code. The Next Step Is Letting It Think for Itself
The chipmaker's software teams crossed a big productivity milestone. Now they are redesigning the entire development process around AI agents that solve problems without being told how.

AI Agents Are Quietly Draining a Resource Nobody Saw Coming: the Humble CPU
Amazon Web Services is rationing CPU capacity, Intel has sold out of server chips, and AMD has doubled its forecast. The AI boom just got a new bottleneck.

AMD's AI chip sales just doubled in a year. Its gaming business? Not so much.
AMD made $6.7 billion from data centre chips in a single quarter, driven almost entirely by AI demand. Gaming revenue fell 31 percent.

AMD Takes On NVIDIA in Robotics With New Kria Module and X100 Chip
AMD says its new Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processor and Kria system module can outperform NVIDIA's flagship robotics chips. A growing list of robot makers is already switching over.

AMD Is Betting Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic and Its Claude AI
The chipmaker will supply massive computing power to the maker of Claude, and in return will use Claude to help write its own software.

AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI Supercomputer
AMD is shipping its first rack-scale AI system to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and others. It is the most serious challenge to Nvidia's grip on the data centre market in years, but the price tag and software gap are real hurdles.

Nvidia Is Pushing Hard to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
The company best known for graphics chips now wants to supply the brains that run AI agents too. Here is what its new Vera Rubin system actually does, and why it matters for anyone who uses AI tools at work.

Microsoft plugs AMD's newest chips into Azure to handle the AI compute crunch
Three new virtual machine types land in Microsoft's cloud, each built around AMD's latest processors and aimed at a different piece of the AI workload puzzle.