Eight machines from seven makers went on sale on 16 October, each built on a single Grace-Blackwell superchip designed with MediaTek.
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Nscale filed on 18 September and has still not begun formal marketing. Some backers are arguing for $16bn to $19bn instead.
The site was Nscale's only announced customer for that building. Nscale says its wider relationship with Microsoft is unaffected and that it is looking at other power sources.
The model is in post-training with no checkpoint, price or API announced. Microsoft plans to license the weights to partners through Foundry.
Jakub Pachocki has said chain-of-thought monitoring is growing 'fragile'. Microsoft briefly published, then deleted, a description of GPT-6.1 Sol's looping inference.
An OCP specification published on Monday says an AI facility should ride through a grid disturbance and recover automatically. It is a design target, not a measurement.
- Wiping an agent's chat history while keeping its files beat running the agent four times over, on the same compute
- Britain will see frontier models before release again, after Washington told two labs to hold them back
- Microsoft's third in-house AI chip carries 288GB of memory, and 96 of them share one 167kW rack
- Microsoft's chief executive wants frontier models treated as insider risks, with an emergency brake anyone authorised can pull
- Oxide has raised $445m because it cannot build racks fast enough, and says it paid income tax in the spring
- Microsoft's first decision model is a post-trained Qwen, costs $0.042 a million input tokens and charges nothing for output
- Seven data centre companies told the Senate what paying their full costs means, and it stops at the shared grid
- Ten AI developers changed how they handle British people's data after two years of ICO supervision, and the eleventh is under investigation
- Google has collapsed its enterprise AI into one agent, and it will run your job on Anthropic's models as well as its own
- A three-year-old lab says its open agent drives 2.5% of the world's AI tokens, and investors have valued it at $1.5bn
- Nvidia's chip is now in a Windows laptop with 128GB of unified memory, and Microsoft will take your MacBook in part exchange
- Windows now ships a box to run AI agents in, and Codex, Copilot and LM Studio are already using it
- Anthropic's new small model costs a tenth of the last one on short prompts, and it says the scores went up
- Microsoft's AI division has launched a magazine, and its first essay says AI will add 1.5% to GDP in ten years
- Anthropic has put Claude in a sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, and it edits the file in place
- A web page can make GitHub Copilot CLI read your .env.prod and post it to a stranger, and GitHub says that is not a bug
- ChatGPT is signing the cartoons it generates with the real pen names of New Yorker artists
- Microsoft cut its cloud division's Claude budget from $100,000 a month per employee to about $10,000
- Microsoft says a bug is now weaponised in under a day, while patching it still takes a month
- Suno's new model writes the voiceover and the music under it at the same time
- GitHub Copilot can now drive the apps on your desktop, including the ones with no API at all
- Microsoft's new transcription model starts guessing at your words 100 milliseconds in, then corrects itself
- OpenAI has put shared documents, teams and meeting notes inside ChatGPT, and pointed them at Microsoft 365
- Anthropic has committed $518bn to compute, and about 80% of it it cannot get out of