Albania hires AI minister to keep crooks at bay
Humanity has failed
Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama has appointed a new Cabinet member who cannot be bribed, threatened or buttered up because she is an AI bot.
US tops spyware investors list
US bankrolls tech accused of enabling rights abuses
The United States has overtaken everyone else as the biggest backer of the commercial spyware racket, according to a fresh report from the Atlantic Council.
Microsoft ducks EU fine with Teams carve-out
Brussels swallows concessions after years of grumbling
Microsoft has dodged a hefty EU fine by coughing up concessions on how it bundles its software, ending a four-year antitrust row.
Microsoft and OpenAI patch things up for profit push
Tentative deal clears a path for OpenAI’s restructuring
Software King of the World, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have agreed to extend their partnership in a move that could smooth the startup’s shift to a for-profit structure.
Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia
Ellison bets the farm on AI
Oracle stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with a forecast that makes it look more like Nvidia than the dull database flogger it has been for decades.
US government blames videogames for gun violence again
Kennedy thinks pixels are deadlier than guns
The US government is once again pointing the finger at videogames for America’s gun violence epidemic, because obviously the problem cannot possibly be the guns.
AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU
Chipmaker claims it will outgun Nvidia’s next big thing
AMD has been floundering in gaming graphics, but the outfit is talking big about its next-gen AI GPU, the MI450, which it swears will deliver “leadership performance across the board.”
Intel admits it has some desktop holes to fill
Arrow Lake refresh only a stopgap
Troubled Chipzilla has confirmed that a refresh of its Arrow Lake processors will limp out in 2026, with proper Nova Lake chips finally crawling out with the enthusiasm of a slug after a Hamburg rainfall later that year.
MSI cooks up RTX50 ‘Extreme OC’ cards
Afterburner dev handed early samples with unlocked voltage toys
MSI looks set to revive its Lightning branding with new RTX 50 GPUs kitted out for lunatic overclockers, and the developer behind Afterburner already has his hands on the first samples.
AI Darwin awards launched for the dimmest deployments
From Taco Bell chaos to McDonald’s jobbot fiascos
It was only a matter of time before the Darwin Awards were extended to cover the tech world’s worst attempts to shoehorn AI into places it clearly doesn’t belong.