
UK businesses are choking on rubbish connectivity
AI and 5G dreams fall flat due to flaky networks and red tape
Ericsson’s latest State of Enterprise Connectivity report shows UK firms are still stuck with prehistoric connectivity while fantasising about AI revolutions and 5G wizardry.

Bromance between Vole and OpenAI over
Altman's outfit considers going nuclear
Tensions are bubbling up between OpenAI and its deep-pocketed backer Microsoft as they start scrapping over control, competition, and how much cash is on the table.

AI used to shrink BT
Kirkby wants to shrink BT, flog off bits
BT boss Allison Kirkby reckons artificial intelligence could slash more jobs than originally planned as she continues her campaign to hollow out the UK telecoms dinosaur while flogging off whatever bits aren’t nailed down.

Apple’s AI paper gets push-back from other boffins
Probably because it doesn't understand what it's doing
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s research paper, pompously titled The Illusion of Thinking, which confidently claimed that large reasoning models (LRMs) collapse when asked to do anything clever, is faulty, according to a top boffin.

Intel Xeon 6 gains AI traction despite rough market ride
Chip lands appearing in Nvidia systems and UK supercomputers
Troubled Chipzilla’s latest Xeon 6 processor is getting noticed for powering AI-heavy workloads in cloud, edge and high-performance computing. It is a shame that the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street are not getting the memo.

Qualcomm shrinks its AR chip
Standalone smart glasses
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1, an updated chip for smart glasses that reduces bulk and introduces AI that runs entirely on the specs themselves, eliminating the need for a phone or cloud connection.

Apple’s “Liquid Glass” sparks backlash
It was supposed to distract from Apple's AI woes but has only made it worse
Apple Fanboys are furious that their fruity cargo cult’s leaders thought that turning to Windows Vista for inspiration would somehow distract them from the fact that the company can’t get its AI to go.

Nvidia boss promises AI renaissance for Europe
Huang reckons continent’s GPU drought is nearly over
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang has assured Europe that its embarrassing lack of AI computing grunt will be sorted soon, as the region scrambles to catch up with the US and China’s AI supremacy.

Meta to splash $15bn on Scale AI stake
Zuckerberg goes headhunting to close AI gap
Meta is reportedly throwing $15 billion at Scale AI for a 49 per cent stake, desperately trying to headhunt is way up the AI pecking order after being left in the dust by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

Panicking over AI failures, Apple declares it impossible
If we can't get it to go it does not exist
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has thrown its toys out of the pram again, in the form of a gloomy research paper declaring that artificial general intelligence might just be a dead end. That is, of course, after finding itself embarrassingly behind rivals who have functioning first generation AI.