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Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firms, has acknowledged that the artificial intelligence boom is eroding the industry’s long-standing unwritten rule against backing direct competitors.

Microsoft will scale its Azure Maia accelerator family to multi-gigawatt deployments beginning in 2027, positioning Maia as 'the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services.' The commitment, laid out in a technical post accompanying Satya Nadella's announcement, moves the in-house silicon from a supporting role to the center of the company's AI infrastructure.

On this week’s episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, Rogers joined executive editor Brian Barrett and director of politics and science Leah Feiger to describe how Muse moved from mundane tasks to explicit role-play.

Amazon and xAI have clashed anew over AI-agent shopping. Multiple users have reported that Amazon is blocking Grok Bot from placing orders.

Shanghai-based RoboParty launched RP1, a full-stack open-source humanoid robot for robotics research and embodied AI.