
Firms flounder with basic AI data prep
Most data to messy or misplaced
According to a new study by Nasuni, only one in five firms reckons their data is fit for AI use, meaning a paltry 27 per cent of artificial intelligence projects are delivering anything close to a return on investment.

Stanford warns China’s AI chase is nearly neck-and-neck
US dominance wanes as Beijing’s benchmarks surge
The US might still be top of the AI table, but China is legging it fast, closing the gap in quality and influence, according to Stanford’s latest Artificial Intelligence Index.

Vole's AI boss says chasing the AI frontier is for mugs
Microsoft plays it slow and strategic
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, maybe sitting on mountains of Nvidia GPUs, but it’s not exactly in a hurry to fire them up on bleeding-edge AI projects.

Vole’s top trio roasted by its own bot
AI cracks jokes as Microsoft marks half a century
The Software King of the World Microsoft celebrated its 50th birthday by wheeling out all three of its CEOs for a bit of self-inflicted ridicule—with help from its AI lapdog, Copilot.

Siri spirals into chaos
Voice assistant flounders while rivals sprint into the future
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s 13-year-old digital dunce Siri is proving more useless than ever, infuriating users while other tech firms surge ahead with bleeding-edge AI chatbots.