ZeroSlop — October 13, 2026

12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.

1. Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

The Verge AI

Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest rea…

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2. Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers To Use More AI

Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game collaboration with Walt Disney and told its developers to use more artificial intelligence tools to finish the game, according to people familiar with the project. The title had been slated f…

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3. Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

Apple ML Journal

The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including high cost, limited elasticity, and long wait times under resource constraints. At the same time, modern Apple Silicon–based macOS devices are equipped with power…

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4. Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background

TechCrunch AI

One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you’ll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users’ activity all the time and gather a…

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5. Developer uses Claude to enable Xbox Cloud Gaming on jailbroken PS5s

Tom’s Hardware

RafaelNGP released a native Xbox Game Pass app allowing Xbox Cloud Gaming on the PS5, with support for 4 controllers and 4K upscaling on the PS5 GPU….

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6. Cryptomining malware used poetry to infect more than 3,400 servers, researchers say

Tom’s Hardware

Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs says PoeLLM malware has hit more than 3,400 servers, most of them exposed AI tools like LiteLLM and Ollama….

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7. With 10.0 Release, ONLYOFFICE Goes All in on AI, Making it the Most Modern Office Choice for Team Collaboration

It’s FOSS

There are apps for workflows and then every editor gets AI tools and new upgrades of its own in the latest release of ONLYOFFICE….

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8. openEuler is Revamping the Development Experience of the Open Source Community With an AI Toolchain

It’s FOSS

AI now reviews code and fixes CVEs in the community’s pipelines, DevStation moves to a 2-week update cycle, and openEuler is layering an agent-native OS on top….

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9. From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA

NVIDIA Blog

Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application.  France’s progress sits on deliberate groundwork.  The AI Action Summ…

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10. Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11

Simon Willison

Python 3.15 is here ! Here’s the essential What’s new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open source software that works in every supported Python version, I get to say goodbye to Python 3.10 and start embracing features …

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11. Intel to phase out SGX after Xeon Diamond Rapids in favor of TDX

Tom’s Hardware

Intel set to discontinue SGX after Xeon ‘Diamond Rapids’ and focus on expanding TDX capabilities to meet emerging security requirements of cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and agentic AI….

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12. AMD debuts Helion reference design for agentic AI servers with up to 32,768 Zen 6 ‘Venice’ cores

Tom’s Hardware

At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI that can house up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores….