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Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia AI accelerator, the Maia 300, saying it will increasingly handle AI processing requests with its own silicon rather than Nvidia GPUs. The chip enters production in 2027, and Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie said Microsoft is targeting multi-gigawatt deployments of the Maia chip family across its Azure data centers.
A researcher digging through Meta's Muse filesystem, following an earlier Hacker News-featured investigation, found that nearly all session logs used Meta's internal 'Avocado' model, but one subagent session was routed to a model labeled azure/muse-special. Technical markers in that session—an OpenAI-style tool call ID format, a gpt_responses_v1 signature, and an encrypted payload prefix associated with OpenAI—suggest the model may be a GPT model served via Azure's OpenAI service, though the exact model version and reason for its use remain unconfirmed.
Egiziago Cioffi, CEO of Microsoft partner SynSphere Italia, discovered that an Azure OpenAI email assistant he built was returning SharePoint content to a low-privilege test account that the account could not access directly in SharePoint. The assistant had passed all evaluation scores and unit tests, but comparing outputs from a high-privilege and a low-privilege account against identical queries exposed the mismatch, revealing that retrieval was happening under the indexer's permissions rather than the requester's.