Tesla hands Musk a $1 trillion payday after a dismal year
Money for nothing
Elon Musk has managed to pull off another jaw-dropping payday, convincing shareholders to approve a $1 trillion compensation package even though Tesla has just crawled through one of its worst years in memory.
Sweden crowned Europe’s AI heavyweight
Digitain report shows Nordic nations leading
Sweden is Europe’s undisputed leader in artificial intelligence investment, with the tech making up more than 0.6 per cent of the country’s economy by the end of 2025.
Microsoft’s new AI crusade aims to ditch OpenAI leash
Suleyman says it’s time for Redmond to build superintelligence
Software king of the world, Microsoft, has decided it no longer wants to be shackled to OpenAI and is setting off on its own grand plan for superintelligence.
Intel's Xe3P might power discrete GPUs
Leaked log suggests high-power variant could land in Arc or workstation kit
It looks like Troubled Chipzilla's next-gen Xe3P architecture won’t be stuck in just integrated graphics, with a new leak hinting that it could power standalone GPUs as well.
Samsung clings to Snapdragon for Galaxy S26
Qualcomm expects 75 per cent chip share despite Exynos revival
Samsung might be dusting off its Exynos project for the Galaxy S26 series, but even the Koreans seem to know where the real firepower lies.
Musk’s AI anime waifu trained on staff’s biometric data
xAI workers roped into building explicit avatars for Musk’s lonely fanboys
If you think your job sucks, imagine working for a supporter of right wing causes that compels you to give up your own biometric data to power his anime sexbot.
DRAM surges past price of gold baas
Memory doubles
The price of DRAM has gone full rocket fuel, rising 171.8 per cent year-on-year as AI-fuelled server demand turns the memory market into a warzone.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee says AI could tear the web’s ad economy apart
Inventor of the internet warns LLMs will stop people reading pages
The man who built the World Wide Web says generative AI is about to shove a crowbar into the internet’s multibillion-dollar advertising racket.
Nvidia boss says China is racing ahead in AI
Huang warns West is stuck in pessimism
US tech giant Nvidia’s supreme dalek Jensen Huang reckons China is pulling ahead in the artificial intelligence race while the Land of the Free is stuck spinning its wheels in regulatory sludge.
Qualcomm weathers tax hit but keeps punters happy
Mobile chip giant posts gains, sees AI as golden goose
Chipmaker Qualcomm managed to please the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street despite coughing up a net loss of $3.12 billion, thanks to an income tax sting that took a chunk out of what would have been a solid quarter.