No. 1AI models
Meta launches Muse Wonder, its first frontier-scale models
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday. They are larger and more capable than the lightweight Muse Spark, and Meta calls them its first frontier attempt. Both are available to Muse Code subscribers. Only Wonder is available through the API, at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. Meta's own testing, not independent results, says they match GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, and Meta also claims the best MemoryBench score of the group. Meta says Wonder will eventually power the Muse agent, but hasn't given a timeline.
No. 2Chips
Microsoft unveils Maia 300 chip to carry its AI inference
Microsoft announced Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, which begins rolling out to production workloads in 2027. Microsoft claims 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems. In a full 96-accelerator setup, it claims up to 7x the rack-scale throughput of Maia 200. The chip uses TSMC's N2P process and splits compute, memory control and I/O into separate pieces. Maia 200 was announced only in January and already runs Copilot and GitHub Copilot. Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments from 2027 so it can rely mainly on its own chips rather than Nvidia's and AMD's.
Why it mattersYou should read this as a sign that big cloud providers want to cut their dependence on Nvidia, though the efficiency numbers are Microsoft's own.
Full story at The Verge →No. 3Robotics
Amazon runs over a million robots alongside 1.5 million people
Amazon now operates more than 1 million warehouse robots, and it also employs more than 1.5 million people. Most of the fleet is wheeled robots descended from the 2012 Kiva acquisition. Amazon is adding robotic arms, which it says number in the single-digit thousands, and the CFO expects to more than double them this year. New robot factories are planned for Austin and Greenwood, Indiana. Executives say the machines take over the riskiest tasks. Researchers note that robots working next to people can set the pace of the work, in a sector where injury rates are already more than double the all-industry average.
No. 4Security
Cyberattack hits supermarket refrigeration and pricing systems across Europe
Supermarkets in France, the Netherlands and Belgium are reportedly dealing with an ongoing cyberattack. In France, it hit Danfoss refrigeration controls used by Intermarché, Leclerc and Coopérative U. Reports say the fridges were forced into continuous defrosting at 50°C. Coopérative U's president confirmed an attack on refrigeration at several stores and called it extremely serious. In the Netherlands, Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall had websites taken down and electronic shelf labels disrupted. Early French losses are near 300,000 euros and could reach several million. It's unclear whether the two incidents are related.
Why it mattersYou can take this as a reminder that remotely controllable physical equipment, like store refrigeration, turns a hack into real-world damage.
Full story at Hacker News →