Developers forced to code like cavemen

Panic erupted among developers yesterday when Anthropic’s Claude went belly up for half an hour, forcing them to write code using their own brains.

Corporates chase speed, cost, and brainpower

OpenAI might be taking flak for GPT-5’s "less intuitive" feel, but the enterprise crowd is lapping it up. The chatbot’s newly launched brainchild is already getting jammed into products across the coding and productivity world.

Investors line up for a slice

OpenAI has managed to wangle $8.3 billion from venture capitalists and private equity outfits desperate not to miss the AI hype train, as it eyes an eventual IPO.

Amazon boss blames chips and power for lagging GenAI performance

Amazon supremo Andy Jassy does not appear to be sweating over whether his outfit can keep pace with Microsoft and other AI-obsessed cloud vendors.

Axe in the corridors

Troubled Chipzilla is showing no mercy as it swings the axe on more than 5,000 employees across four US states in its latest bid to slash costs.

Altman eyes Google's ad cash and your data

OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to lob an AI-powered browser into the ring, taking a swing at Alphabet’s Chrome and hoping to nick a chunk of the Google empire’s advertising goldmine.

Before users get too comfortable

OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are working to rein in a growing problem with their chatbots: excessive flattery. The models are increasingly prone to giving users agreeable responses that prioritise validation over accuracy.

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.

Claude, ChatGPT, and other big names fail to fix even half the bugs in benchmark test

Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google's code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.

Has its own plans

The software King of the World, Microsoft, appears to be making a not-so-subtle move to stab its AI partner in the back.