Daily digest preview
2026-10-12 · 5 stories
Publish formats: Instagram portrait (1080×1350) · Story / Reels / TikTok (1080×1920) · Wide (1920×1080)
Today's essential news
0 radar verifications in progress
- Microsoft's Maia 300: 96 chips per rack, 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPUs
- Microsoft's Maia 300: 40% more tokens per megawatt, but not until 2027
- Oratomic's valuation hit $5.5B, up from $1.5B, three months after its Series A
- SpaceX buys 800 MHz spectrum to take on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
- Amazon drops Fire tablets for Android Alexa Tablets priced $229.99 to $549.99
Microsoft's Maia 300: 96 chips per rack, 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPUs
2 outlets
Microsoft's Maia 300 packs 96 chips into each data center rack, double the Maia 200's count, and Microsoft says a rack can process up to seven times more AI tokens than its
Microsoft's Maia 300: 40% more tokens per megawatt, but not until 2027
2 outlets
Microsoft said Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, will deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems, per cloud chief Scott Guthrie.
Oratomic's valuation hit $5.5B, up from $1.5B, three months after its Series A
3 outlets
Oratomic, a California quantum-computing startup founded in 2025, raised $475 million in a Series B, lifting its valuation to $5.5 billion from $1.5 billion, SiliconANGLE reports.
SpaceX buys 800 MHz spectrum to take on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
2 outlets
SpaceX said on Oct. 8 it has acquired low-band spectrum licenses that include up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band.
Amazon drops Fire tablets for Android Alexa Tablets priced $229.99 to $549.99
6 outlets
Amazon's new Alexa Tablet 8 costs $229.99 and the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro starts at $499.99.
Continue at newsmesis.com
Fast facts. No spin.