EU blinks on AI rules to keep Trump happy
Brussels caves to Big Tech pressure and Washington’s tantrums
The European Commission is proposing to water down its much-hyped artificial intelligence legislation after sustained whinging from Big Tech and the looming threat of a Trump-shaped tantrum from across the Atlantic.
Samsung Galaxy S26 to land in January
Last-minute shakeups won’t derail the launch
Despite chatter about delays due to internal reshuffles, Samsung is pushing ahead with its Galaxy S26 series.
TSMC hikes Apple's chip prices
Looks like that custom silicon empire was not so good after all
TSMC is turning the screws on its biggest customers, with reports suggesting an across-the-board price hike for its most advanced chip-making processes next year. That means Job’s Mob is about to pay through the nose for its custom silicon.
Nvidia might scrap RTX 50 SUPER GPUs
Thanks to DDR7 shortages
It looks like Nvidia might be running out of memory, and the dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn suggesting its long-expected GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series could be delayed or binned.
Intel's Bartlett Lake-S leaks show 12 beefy cores at 6GHz
Next desktop bruiser is fast, but strangely focused on the wrong market
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that troubled Chipzilla is cooking up a new CPU monster with twelve performance cores and a 6GHz clock speed.
BT chops jobs as broadband customers flee to rivals
Profits slip
The once-mighty British telecoms behemoth has shed another 242,000 Openreach broadband customers in just three months as punters flee to cheaper rivals, while the company slashes jobs to keep shareholders calm.
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.