Unreal Engine 5.7 lands with flashier lights and leafy Nanite tricks
Epic dishes out a fresh toolkit stuffed with visual wizardry.
Epic has lobbed Unreal Engine 5.7 at developers, and the thing arrives with enough graphical muscle to make rival engines look like they are running on a wheezing toaster.
AI agents finally start doing some real work
BNY and Walmart claim their digital workers are more than flashy demos.
For all the noise about AI agents changing everything, most have looked like expensive toys waiting for a job. Now, a few early adopters say the graft is paying off.
China taps Nvidia kit through a maze of middlemen
Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.
A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.
Anthropic splashes out on colossal AI kit build
Claude maker throws silly money at US data centres
Anthropic has decided that the only way to keep its AI toys from coughing is to pour $50 billion into new infrastructure across the US.
Nvidia will not lose out from Softbank exit
SoftBank’s chip shuffle stirs the AI pot
SoftBank's theatrical exit by selling its $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia mattered far less to the chipmaker than the chatter suggested, because the holding was tiny beside a $4.8 trillion colossus and barely shifted the dial.
AMD plots Gorgon and Medusa to turn rivals to stone
Zen 5 refresh in 2026, Zen 6 in 2027, and a mysterious new GPU to bury RDNA
AMD has lifted the kimono on its next-gen client CPUs and GPUs, with new codenames straight out of Greek mythology.
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 proves efficiency cores are a waste of silicon
Samsung’s Exynos refuses to learn the lesson
It takes a certain flair to kick off an industry trend, and MediaTek managed it when it lobbed efficiency cores out the window with its Dimensity 9300 in November 2023.
Sony flogs cheaper Japan-only PS5 to fight inflation
Cuts price to keep up with Nintendo’s Switch 2 juggernaut
Sony has decided to flog a cut-price version of its PlayStation 5 only in Japan, trying to spark sales at home as inflation bites and Nintendo keeps eating its lunch.
Foxconn cashes in on AI server boom
Outshines iPhone biz as server demand roars ahead
Contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has posted a 17 per cent surge in third-quarter profits, with AI servers doing the heavy lifting while iPhones took a backseat.
SoftBank flogs Nvidia stake to bet big on OpenAI
Son's AI obsession unnerves investors despite record profits
SoftBank Group shares nosedived 10 per cent after it dumped its entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion, choosing to punt the lot on OpenAI instead.