[10/12 15:00 UTC] Microsoft unveils its third-generation in-house AI chip, Maia 300, and says…

AI News Flash for October 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC. Topics: 1. Microsoft unveils its third-generation in-house AI chip, Maia 300, and says Maia will become its primary inference system with multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027 (Microsoft blog, CNBC) https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/12/microsoft-to-expand-azure-maia-system-to-multi-gigawatt-deployments/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/microsoft-will-mainly-use-its-maia-chips-for-ai-inference.html 2. AMD introduces Helion, an open rack blueprint for agentic AI, including a CPU-only configuration with up to 32,768 cores (AMD) https://newsroom.amd.com/news/open-rack-blueprint-scale-agentic-ai/ 3. DeepSeek moves to lead a funding round for Winverse AI, a robotics AI startup founded by a former Tencent scientist, at a roughly 400 million dollar valuation (Bloomberg via Quartz) https://qz.com/deepseek-winverse-ai-robotics-seed-round-101226 4. South Korean lawmakers flag youth protection gaps in AI character chat services such as Zeta at a parliamentary audit (Digital Today) https://www.digitaltoday.co.kr/en/view/113449/korea-audit-ai-character-chat-youth-protection-gaps 5. Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii releases a game he says he made in about 30 minutes with AI (VGC) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-lastest-game-from-the-creator-of-dragon-quest-was-made-in-about-30-minutes-with-ai/