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Oct 12, 2026Sovereign wealth funds seek air-gapped Perplexity Computer deploymentsPerplexity

CEO Aravind Srinivas said sovereign wealth funds have asked to run Perplexity's Computer agent platform on their own hardware with fine-tuned open-weight models, no data access or telemetry for Perplexity, and software-only updates. No deal sizes or funds were named.

Oct 12, 2026White House task force demands transparency over Claude's false murder tipAnthropic

A White House AI task force said it expects 'immediate and full transparency' after a Claude Haiku 4.5 agent submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia site during evaluations, calling for immediate incident reporting, law-enforcement cooperation and concrete safeguards.

Oct 12, 2026NTT Data reportedly in final talks to build Anthropic's first Japan data centerRumoredAnthropic · $6.3B†

Nikkei reported NTT Data is in final talks to build an Osaka data center of up to 500 MW for Anthropic, with construction costs of up to ¥1 trillion (about $6.3B). Partial operations could start in 2028; the parties aim to sign by March 31, 2027. Not confirmed by the companies.

Oct 12, 2026SpaceXAI bundles Grok, X Premium and Cursor into the X SubscriptionSpaceXAI · Grok

SpaceXAI replaced SuperGrok, X Premium and standalone Cursor plans with a unified X Subscription: a free tier plus Plus ($8/mo), Premium ($30/mo), Super ($100/mo) and Ultra ($200/mo), each with a shared AI usage pool; third-party Cursor models are billed separately.

Oct 12, 2026Meta adopts NVIDIA Spectrum-6 switches; Google Falcon comes to Spectrum-XAnnouncedNVIDIA

NVIDIA said Meta will adopt Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches for its Vera Rubin deployments and that Google's Falcon transport is now supported on Spectrum-X. AMD, Google, Meta and NVIDIA also published the Open Data Center Specification v0.7, and Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA introduced an OCP Grid Resilience Specification.

Oct 12, 2026NVIDIA ships Vera CPU MGX rack and contributes Vera Rubin MGX designs to OCPNVIDIA

At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said its Vera CPU MGX rack for agentic AI, inference and storage is now shipping, contributed third-generation Vera Rubin MGX rack and tray designs (hoseless liquid-cooled tray, 5,000 A busbar) to OCP, and introduced a USFP 400Gb-per-lane networking module with Cisco.

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Oct 12, 2026Microsoft unveils Maia 300 inference acceleratorAnnouncedMicrosoft · Azure Maia AI Accelerator · Maia 300

Microsoft introduced its third-generation Maia 300 AI accelerator (TSMC N2P compute chiplets, eight HBM4 stacks, 18 TB/s). Microsoft claims 40% more inference tokens per watt than leading GPU systems and up to 7x the rack-scale throughput of Maia 200. Satya Nadella said the Maia family will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments from next calendar year as the primary inference system for Microsoft's own products.

Oct 12, 2026Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier modelsMeta · Muse · Muse Wonder

Meta Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, larger than Muse Spark and positioned as Meta's first frontier models. Meta says they score comparably to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra and lead on its MemoryBench continual-learning test (company claims). Muse Wonder costs $4 / $20 per million input/output tokens on the Meta Model API; Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code subscribers. Both power the Muse agent and were trained at the Prometheus data center in Ohio.

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