
Canada’s tech hiring freeze worse than cold snap
ChatGPT blamed as pandemic-era boom crashes into AI reality
Canada’s once-blistering tech job market has faceplanted, with listings now 19 per cent below what they were in 2020, and analysts are pointing fingers squarely at AI.

OpenAI’s corporate restructuring could drag into 2026
Microsoft standoff stalls SoftBank billions
OpenAI’s attempts to restructure its business have hit the skids as it locks horns with the software King of the World, Microsoft, leaving billions in SoftBank cash hanging in the balance.

Cambricon cashes in on anti-Nvidia orders
Beijing's AI chip pipsqueak rakes in the yuan
Chinese chip upstart Cambricon is laughing all the way to the bank after netting a record profit on the back of Beijing's vendetta against Nvidia.

Intel warns about Trump’s partial nationalisation
US government stake could be a poisoned chalice
Troubled Chipzilla has admitted that the US government’s shiny new 9.9 per cent stake in the firm might be more of a liability than a lifeline.

Huawei working on HBM-free AI SSDs
Chinese giant eyes solid-state alternative to high-bandwidth memory
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Huawei is cooking up a new type of memory aimed at AI workloads that could ditch traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).

IBM Power11 gets speed boost and AI smarts
Uses Samsung's enhanced 7nm node with 2.5D stacking
IBM has wheeled out its Power11 server CPU at Hot Chips 2025, giving it higher clocks, AI acceleration, and a taste of Samsung’s iCube 2.5D packaging.

AMD blames mobo makers for AM5 socket meltdowns
Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest
AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.

Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over chatbot monopoly
If you don't use my AI, I will sue
Elon Musk's AI outfit xAI has lobbed a lawsuit at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and its AI darling OpenAI, accusing them of colluding to squash competition in the generative chatbot space.

Nvidia pushes into self-driving cars as robot future looms
Chip giant sees its robot dreams on four wheels first
Nvidia has set its sights on self-driving cars as the next major cash cow for its physical AI push, hoping to ride a wave of autonomous vehicles before humanoid robots make it out of its smoke-filled labs.

Infineon links up with Nvidia for physical AI robots
Chipmaker arms Jetson Thor with smarter motors
Infineon has teamed up with Nvidia to push physical AI deeper into humanoid robotics, stuffing smarter motor control into the chip designer's Jetson Thor developer kits.