Kissing the ring while Musk is left out in the cold

The biggest names in US tech have lined up at the White House to show how much they adore Donald and Melania Trump, apparently believing fawning public displays will save their companies from regulators.

ChatGPT outfit wants to ditch Nvidia addiction

OpenAI is moving into chip manufacturing next year in a bid to feed its AI addiction and loosen its ties with Nvidia’s pricey silicon.

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.

Hollow-core cable could mean faster clouds and greener networks

A group of networking boffins bankrolled by Microsoft have emerged from their smoke filled lab claiming that they’ve broken a major speed and latency barrier with a new hollow-core fibre design.

Redmond stonewalls watchdogs over Office 365 flows

Software King of the World, Microsoft is refusing to tell Police Scotland where the sensitive data it processes in Office 365 goes, leaving the force staring down a breach of UK law.

Copilot gets high-speed voice generation while foundation model debuts on LMArena

Software King of the World, Microsoft has trundled out two new in-house AI efforts, one already talking inside Copilot and the other still in the test arena.

Brussels hints trade deal could collapse 

The EU’s competition chief Teresa Ribera has warned that Brussels must be ready to ditch its freshly minted trade deal with the US if Donald Trump presses ahead with threats to neuter Europe’s digital rules in favour of Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta.

Vendors flog silicon dreams while punters wait for prices to drop

Despite some economic potholes and user indifference, so-called AI PCs are crawling their way into the market, with analysts predicting 143 million units will ship next year.

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.

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.