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

Here are the twenty-one biggest technology and AI stories of the day, from Meta's first frontier model and Microsoft's Maia 300 chip to a cyberattack that switched off supermarket fridges across France.

1. Meta Releases Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier Model, for Agentic Tasks

Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Wonder through its Model API and Muse Code at $4 per million input tokens, plus a larger Muse Wonder Full for Muse Code subscribers.

2. Microsoft Unveils the Maia 300 Chip as Its Main Inference Hardware From 2027

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

3. Epic Games Reportedly Delays Its Disney Game and Moves Developers to AI-First Work

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

4. Kroger Plans to Cut About 3,000 Corporate Roles 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 as the grocer expands its use of AI and technology.

5. A Cyberattack Shuts Off Refrigeration at Hundreds of French Supermarkets

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spoiling food in stores across chains, and Paris prosecutors opened an investigation; Danfoss said affected units ran outdated firmware.

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

Micron fell 3.9% and Samsung and SK Hynix lost about 4% in Seoul, while the Nasdaq slipped 0.44% on Monday as memory stocks weighed on technology shares.

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

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

8. IonQ Agrees to 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. Ahold Delhaize Takes Systems Offline After a Network Security Issue

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

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

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

11. Intel Launches the D270, an Inference GPU With Up to 480GB of Memory

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

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

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

13. SpaceX's AI Unit Bundles Grok, Cursor and X Into One Subscription

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

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

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

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

Airtable said much of its pre-acquisition team will leave this week with separation packages, without giving a number, and that plans and pricing for customers are unchanged.

16. UK AI Minister Tells Frontier Labs Not to Release Models They Cannot Control

Kanishka Narayan said Britain cannot rely on companies to police themselves and set out plans to strengthen cyber defences, including reporting serious AI incidents.

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

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

18. HCLTech Signs a Global Premier Partnership With Anthropic

The Indian IT services firm is creating 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, Including Copilot Studio

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

20. China's Infinigence AI Raises RMB 2.3B in a Series C Round

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

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

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