Morgan Stanley uses AI to modernise ancient code
And they said it could not be done
While most of Big Tech is still fumbling with AI tools that choke on COBOL, beancounters Morgan Stanley has quietly rolled out a GPT-based system to deal with the crusty legacy code clogging up its systems.
Beijing blocks Apple-AI rollout with Alibaba
Worried that Apple might get Chinese intelligence
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s plan to launch its flashy new artificial intelligence kit in China is going nowhere fast, thanks to regulators in Beijing dragging their feet. The snag seems to stem from an unfortunate side effect of Donald Trump’s trade war.
British MPs slam Apple and Google for blocking anti-theft fix
Job's Mob and Google accused of dragging their feet to protect profits
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Google are getting a proper earful from furious British MPs for stalling a basic anti-theft fix that could stop criminals cashing in on stolen smartphones.
Nvidia boss says Switch 2 chip is "the dog's"
Most advanced mobile GPU ever
Nvidia supremo Jensen Huang has been wagging his tongue about a custom chip for the Switch 2, calling it the most advanced bit of mobile graphics kit the outfit has ever produced.
Hell Is Us demo crashes RTX 50 and 40 cards
Devs suggest lowering settings and disabling upscaling to avoid intro crash
Hell just froze for Nvidia RTX 50 and 40 series owners trying to play the demo of Hell Is Us. The game crashes before the cinematic even finishes, leaving players staring at their high-end hardware in disbelief.
Brain in a box goes on sale for $35k
Cortical Labs ships synthetic brains to scientists with a taste for real-time wetware
An Aussie startup has stuck 800,000 lab-grown human neurons on a chip and called it a computer. Cortical Labs says its CL1 is the world’s first code-deployable biological machine, and it’s up for grabs at $35,000 a pop.
TSMC says AI chip war doesn’t matter
All roads lead to TSMC
The head of TSMC reckons it doesn’t really matter whether GPUs or ASICs win the AI chip race. Either way, the orders are heading back to his outfit.
Mid-market firms having second thoughts about the cloud
Node4 report suggests hybrid is the new black
Nearly all mid-market companies are eyeing a cloud exit, according to fresh research from Node4, with 97 per cent planning to shift some workloads off the public cloud in the next year.
Micron shows off "thinnest and fastest" mobile DRAM
1-gamma LPDDR5X claims big AI gains with better battery life
Micron has started shipping samples of its 1-gamma node-based LPDDR5X memory, which it claims is the world’s fastest and thinnest low-power DRAM designed for flagship smartphones.
RTX 5060 Ti steals AMD’s 9070 lunch money
Steam gamers show more love for Nvidia’s cheaper cards
Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti has only been rattling around for six weeks but has already overtaken AMD’s shiny new RX 9070 series, at least according to Valve’s latest Steam hardware survey.