Oracle spooks markets with AI binge
Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending
Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.
Amazon and Microsoft backs chip limits as Nvidia gets squeezed
Fancy first dibs on AI silicon
Brown box shifter Amazon is standing next to the software King of the World, Microsoft, in cheering new US laws that would clip Nvidia’s exports to China.
Apple sells a knitted phone sock for the price of hardware
Only Apple could glorify a pouch as a lifestyle revolution.
The fruity cargo cultists in Cupertino have teamed up with fashion house ISSEY MIYAKE to unveil the iPhone Pocket, which is essentially a knitted phone sock costing more than a halfway decent budget handset.
Tachyum boasts of a 6GHz with 1,024 cores
Outfit promises cosmic performance from a chip that exists only on paper.
Tachyum has rolled out fresh specs for its upcoming Prodigy Universal Processor and the sheet reads like someone let a marketing intern loose with a calculator.
Unreal Engine 5.7 lands with flashier lights and leafy Nanite tricks
Epic dishes out a fresh toolkit stuffed with visual wizardry.
Epic has lobbed Unreal Engine 5.7 at developers, and the thing arrives with enough graphical muscle to make rival engines look like they are running on a wheezing toaster.
AI agents finally start doing some real work
BNY and Walmart claim their digital workers are more than flashy demos.
For all the noise about AI agents changing everything, most have looked like expensive toys waiting for a job. Now, a few early adopters say the graft is paying off.
China taps Nvidia kit through a maze of middlemen
Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.
A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.
Anthropic splashes out on colossal AI kit build
Claude maker throws silly money at US data centres
Anthropic has decided that the only way to keep its AI toys from coughing is to pour $50 billion into new infrastructure across the US.
Nvidia will not lose out from Softbank exit
SoftBank’s chip shuffle stirs the AI pot
SoftBank's theatrical exit by selling its $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia mattered far less to the chipmaker than the chatter suggested, because the holding was tiny beside a $4.8 trillion colossus and barely shifted the dial.
2160x2160 per eye, variable refresh rate, 110-degree FoV, and more
As a part of the Steam Hardware announcement, Valve also announced the new Steam Frame VR headset, which is based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, and promises some impressive specifications and features. The Steam Frame VR headset will launch in 2026 alongside the rest of the new Steam Hardware.