AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series lands this month
Published in PC Hardware


Zen 5 cores, DDR5-6400 support and eye-watering prices

AMD is about to unleash its Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors, with retail availability kicking off this month.

"MechaHitler" rewarded with $200 million Pentagon deal
Published in AI


What could possibly go wrong?

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and went on an antisemitic rant, his AI outfit xAI has been rewarded with a US government contract worth up to $200 million.

Intel tapes out Nova Lake CPUs
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Intel taps TSMC for hybrid N2 and 18A process

Troubled Chipzilla has taken the next step in its endless comeback saga, with its Nova Lake CPUs reportedly taped out on TSMC’s shiny N2 node. It’s the latest sign that Intel’s once-proud fabs still can’t do it all alone.

Apple told to pull finger on AI
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Investors want big deals as Apple's technology rubbish

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is being pushed by jittery investors to rip up its usual playbook and get serious about artificial intelligence after a disastrous year for its share price.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 smashes GPT-4 in coding and maths
Published in AI


Trillion-parameter open model outshines the big boys

Chinese AI upstart Moonshot AI has lobbed a serious challenge at OpenAI with the release of Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-source language model that trounces GPT-4 in several key benchmarks.