# #CloudComputing in the news

October 24, 2026 at 01:11 PM

> AWS Internal Emails Reveal $8B AI Hardware Spend · Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Accelerator Chip · OpenAI Launches dot AI Agent on AMD EPYC Servers

[AWS Internal Emails Reveal $8B AI Hardware Spend](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/aws-internal-emails-reveal-8b-ai-hardware-spend-d62bd09a>)
*October 24, 2026 at 01:11 PM* - Amazon faces 'Dark GPU' idle hardware issues while projecting $220 billion in capital expenditures for AI infrastructure during 2026.

[Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Accelerator Chip](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/microsoft-unveils-maia-300-ai-accelerator-chip-bc448621>)
*October 12, 2026 at 06:14 PM* - Microsoft's new Maia 300 chip features 288 GB of HBM4 memory and targets massive AI scaling with production scheduled for 2027.

[OpenAI Launches dot AI Agent on AMD EPYC Servers](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/openai-launches-dot-ai-agent-on-amd-epyc-servers-43580df8>)
*September 30, 2026 at 03:49 PM* - OpenAI's new dot personal AI agent utilizes 9-core AMD EPYC virtual machines and GPT-6 Astra to manage complex tasks across cloud apps.