
Amazon jams Alexa+ into everything
Generative AI shoved into Echos, Fire TVs and doorbells
Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ across a pile of its hardware, effectively welding generative AI into daily life whether people want it or not.

Amazon Fire TV to dump Android for Linux in 2025
Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits
Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS.

ASUS RTX 5070 dips below MSRP
Nvidia price slide continues
While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.

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.

SAP flings €20 billion at sovereign cloud
German outfit wants to keep Europe’s ai data away from US
The maker of esoteric business software, which no one is sure quiet what it does, SAP has promised to splurge more than €20 billion ($23.3 billion) over the next decade on “sovereign cloud” infrastructure in Europe.

Nvidia’s profits sparkle but China chip freeze spooks traders
AI darling’s data centre growth slows as H20 blacklisting bites
Nvidia has blown past earnings expectations again, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street.

Fortnite boss slams UK Big Tech regulation
Epic Games fumes over delay while rivals move ahead
The UK is falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to standing up to Big Tech, according to Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney.

ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push
Ramps up in-house CPU plans
Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.

Streaming chaos driving piracy's comeback
Industry own goal
Streaming is in such a mess that piracy is starting to look like the grown-up option.

US consumers paying for Big Tech’s bargain power bills
Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward
State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.