AI Brief: Meta Tops Benchmarks, Amazon's $7B Bet, Microsoft's Maia 300, Anthropic's IP Defense, IMF Jobs Warning

Meta's frontier models dethrone rivals, Amazon chases Decart, Microsoft bets on in-house silicon, and the IMF sounds the alarm on AI job displacement.

• Meta Launches Muse Wonder Models, Claims to Beat Claude and GPT-6 at the Frontier
• Amazon in Talks to Acquire AI Startup Decart for $7 Billion
• Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Chip, Plans One Million Units by 2027
• Anthropic Cuts Distillation Attacks by 90–99%, Bans Tens of Thousands of Accounts
• IMF Warns AI Is a 'Slow-Moving Tsunami' Threatening 40% of Global Jobs