TD SYNNEX insists AI will save the channel
Distributor claims partners must blend hype with “resilient frameworks”
TD SYNNEX reckons artificial intelligence is the cure for everything from talent shortages to macroeconomic malaise.
Chinese government tells firms to bin Nvidia AI chips
Beijing blocks RTX Pro 6000
China has told some of its biggest tech outfits, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to stop messing about with Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 chips.
Peter Thiel warns Silicon Valley to beware the antichrist
Billionaire tech guru says unchecked progress may summon apocalypse
Peter Thiel who once made billions betting on technology now wants everyone to think a bit harder about a literal biblical Armageddon and the Antichrist.
AI doctors hate women and minorities
Bias baked into medical models
Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.
Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs
Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).
AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
Hopes devs finally look at its software stack
AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.
Google doing AI evil
Contractors sacked amid anger over pay and working conditions
While most companies are flinging cash and staff at AI, Google, has been firing the workers keeping its Gemini and AI Overviews systems afloat.
AI guts entry-level Indian outsourcing
India’s hiring pyramid smashed
Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys created empires by piling armies of junior staff into a vast hiring pyramid.
UK’s AI ‘hit squad’ can’t hire enough staff
Government unit underspends half its budget chasing scarce talent
A UK government artificial intelligence unit that was supposed to save £45 billion across the civil service managed to burn through less than half its budget last year.
SK hynix puts HBM4 into full production
Chipmaker claims "World’s fastest AI memory" ready for mass rollout
SK hynix says it has wrapped up development of its HBM4 memory and is ready to churn it out for the AI bubble boom.