Microsoft’s copilot is unpopular
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Monday, 28 April 2025 09:23

Microsoft’s copilot is unpopular


Vole's AI dreams tun to nightmares

Software King of the World, Microsoft’s big AI push is falling flat, with its Copilot assistant stuck at 20 million users a week while ChatGPT soars past 400 million. Despite stuffing Copilot into Windows, slapping a dedicated key on keyboards, and burning billions, the software giant cannot get punters to care.

OpenAI eyes Chrome if regulators gut Google
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Wednesday, 23 April 2025 09:48

OpenAI eyes Chrome if regulators gut Google


All roads lead to Chrome

ChatGPT wouldn’t mind getting its paws on Chrome, if the courts end up prying it from Google’s iron grip.

AI still pants at debugging, says Microsoft study
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Claude, ChatGPT, and other big names fail to fix even half the bugs in benchmark test

Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google's code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.

Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz
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Friday, 28 March 2025 11:13

Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz


Getting more from it than ChatGPT

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has been playing with DeepSeek’s R1, and it appears to be impressed.

OpenAI's GPU inferno forces ChatGPT image throttle
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Too many pictures, not enough silicon

OpenAI's shiny new toy is already running hot—literally.

ChatGPT hamstrung by hypersensitive terms and conditions
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Ancient religious fears

OpenAI’s flagship AI assistant, ChatGPT, is finding itself constrained by its efforts to appease religious groups.

Cursor AI refused to help developer
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Friday, 14 March 2025 11:38

Cursor AI refused to help developer


Learn to code you lazy git

A hapless developer using the Cursor AI-powered coding tool ran into an unexpected roadblock when, after about 800 lines of code, the AI threw up its hands and refused to continue, instead doling out some unsolicited career advice.

Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
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Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i

Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.

OpenAI growing like topsy
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Friday, 21 February 2025 09:15

OpenAI growing like topsy


400M weekly active users, doubles enterprise customer base

OpenAI is riding a tidal wave of growth, with ChatGPT and its other AI products now boasting over 400 million active weekly users—a  33 per cent jump since December.

Nearly a third of AI chatbots share data
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Friday, 21 February 2025 09:05

Nearly a third of AI chatbots share data


Google Gemini does the most evil 

AI chatbots are harvesting user data at an alarming rate, with 30 per cent of them handing it over to third parties, including data brokers.