AI and Tech News, 13 Oct 2026: Meta Muse Wonder, Maia 300, Epic AI

A cyberattack switched off supermarket fridges across France. That's just one of today's twenty-one biggest technology and AI stories, alongside Meta's first frontier model and Microsoft's Maia 300 chip.

1. Muse Wonder, Meta's First Frontier Model, Arrives for Agentic Tasks

Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Wonder in Muse Code and, in preview, through its Model API at $4 per million input tokens. There's also a larger Muse Wonder Full for Muse Code subscribers.

2. From 2027, Microsoft's Main Inference Hardware Will Be the New Maia 300 Chip

Shown at the OCP Global Summit, the third-generation Maia chip will join multigigawatt deployments next year. Microsoft claims it delivers 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems.

3. Epic Games Has Reportedly Delayed Its Disney Game and Shifted Developers to AI-First Work

Bloomberg reported that the shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters, slated for March, has no new date. Staff were reportedly told to build code and art with AI tools such as Claude.

4. Kroger Plans to Cut About 3,000 Corporate Jobs Over Three Years

A memo from CEO Greg Foran, reported by Bloomberg and Reuters, covers about 37% of Kroger's roughly 8,200 corporate staff. The grocer is expanding its use of AI and technology.

5. Hundreds of French Supermarkets Lose Refrigeration in a Cyberattack

Attackers forced Danfoss refrigeration controllers into nonstop defrost cycles overnight, spoiling food in stores across several chains. Paris prosecutors opened an investigation, and Danfoss said the affected units ran outdated firmware.

6. China's CXMT Touts a Denser DRAM Design, and Memory Chip Stocks Fall

Micron fell 3.9%, and Samsung and SK Hynix lost roughly 3.5% in Seoul. Memory stocks dragged on technology shares, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell about 2.7%.

7. Nvidia Hands Its Vera Rubin Rack Designs to the Open Compute Project

At the OCP Global Summit, Nvidia contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs through its MGX architecture. It also said Meta is adopting its Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches.

8. IonQ Will Buy Cybersecurity Firm Elisity for Up to $1.3B

The all-stock deal includes up to $150M in performance payments and pairs IonQ's quantum security work with Elisity's zero-trust software. IonQ shares fell nearly 10% on the news.

9. A Network Security Issue Forces Ahold Delhaize to Take Systems Offline

The owner of Stop & Shop, Food Lion and Albert Heijn said stores stayed open. Still, several U.S. and Dutch banner websites and online ordering services went down on Monday.

10. AMD's Helion Is an Open Rack Design With Up to 32,768 Zen 6 Cores

The reference design for agentic AI fits up to 128 EPYC processors in a CPU-only rack. A second enterprise version mixes CPU blades with Instinct GPUs.

11. Intel's D270 Is an Inference GPU With Up to 480GB of Memory

The first card in Intel's GPU D-series uses low-cost LPDDR5X memory in a 350W air-cooled design. Intel's own card has 160GB, and partner versions go up to 480GB.

12. Small AI Models May Soon Self-Replicate on Cheap Devices, Anthropic Warns

Its Frontier Red Team said small open-weight models could be able to copy themselves onto IoT hardware, such as Android TV boxes, by the end of 2026.

13. Grok, Cursor and X Now Come in One Subscription From SpaceX's AI Unit

The new X Subscription has a free tier and paid tiers from $8 to $200 a month. The $30 Premium plan combines SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and X Premium+.

14. Omron Will Buy Industrial PC Maker OnLogic for $675M

The Japanese automation company is paying cash for OnLogic's parent, Interlogic, to build physical AI platforms. The deal is expected to close around January 2027.

15. Bending Spoons, Airtable's New Owner, Lays Off a Large Part of the Team

Airtable said much of its pre-acquisition team will leave this week with separation packages, without giving a number. It added that plans and pricing for customers haven't changed.

16. The UK's AI Minister Tells Frontier Labs Not to Release Models They Can't Control

Kanishka Narayan said Britain can't rely on companies to police themselves. He set out plans to strengthen cyber defences, including reporting serious AI incidents.

17. Google's $179.99 Fitbit Edge Launches With a Replaceable Battery

The tracker is open for preorder, with up to seven days of battery life and Health Guardian background health monitoring. It reaches stores on October 27.

18. HCLTech and Anthropic Sign a Global Premier Partnership

The Indian IT services firm is setting up a dedicated Anthropic business unit to build Claude-based agents for enterprises, and HCLSoftware will embed Claude in its products.

19. Microsoft Cuts Jobs at Its Israel Development Center, Copilot Studio Included

Israeli outlets reported that dozens of roles are affected by a global restructuring. Most of the Copilot Studio group is expected to move into other jobs at the company.

20. China's Infinigence AI Brings In RMB 2.3B in a Series C

The roughly $344M round for the AI computing infrastructure company, which links 16 types of chips, takes its total funding to about RMB 4.3B.

21. Suki, the Ambient Scribe Startup, Raises a $90M Series E

Axios reported that Healthier Capital led the round for the AI note-taking tool for doctors. Suki projects $60M to $80M in revenue this year.