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At OCP 2026 Cisco unveiled the Silicon One G302 top-of-rack chip, said Microsoft and Alibaba run its P200 in production, and began shipping G300 systems.

Calcalist reports about 50 Copilot Studio staff at Microsoft Israel face pre-dismissal hearings in a global restructuring. Microsoft gave no numbers.

Microsoft unveils Maia 300 and says Maia will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027 as its main inference system. Maia 200 is in production.

Circana analyst Mat Piscatella says US Xbox unit sales are down 33% and PlayStation down 25% year to date through August. Prices are Tom's Hardware's.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's X article says AI models should be treated like insider risks, with controls outside the model and a way to pause it mid-task. What he wrote, and what it doesn't show.

The US Labor Department has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcing firms from the PERM labour-certification process, the first step towards a green card. What the announcement confirms, what the fraud claims are, and what Microsoft says. Plus a pointer to TSN's separate post on Axios's report about AI companies' "day after" planning.

Three security items from 8–9 October 2026: a security firm reports attack attempts against a patched, maximum-severity SonicWall SMA1000 flaw (success unconfirmed); Pwn2Own Ireland pays $1,262,000 for 98 zero-days; and Microsoft says Windows Update certificates expire on 17 May and 19 June 2027.

A preprint from EPFL researchers, listed on Apple's research site, finds a single minimal coding-agent session matched or beat elaborate machine-learning agent systems in its tests. Pasqal releases skills that let coding agents prepare quantum experiments, and Microsoft makes 30 Dynamics 365 CRM skills generally available, with Autopilot still in private preview.

Update, 9 Oct 2026: Bloomberg reports that OpenAI expects to reach or exceed $70bn in annualised revenue by the end of the year, citing people familiar with the matter. That is a projection, not current revenue, and OpenAI declined to comment. The Financial Times reports that OpenAI told investors its annualised revenue was "approaching $50 billion" at the end of September, about $20bn below figures reported last month. What "annualised" means, why OpenAI and Anthropic count differently, and what the report does not prove.

DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final, hands-on stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, and says it increasingly expects a useful quantum computer by 2033. UK trapped-ion firm Universal Quantum has raised more than $100m, IonQ claims big speed-ups for error-corrected operations in simulations, and a peer-reviewed Cornell paper shows a full gate set on a qubit that partly tolerates its main error. Plus a Jülich preprint and Infineon's ion-trap chips. What each confirms, and what is only claimed.