
Nearly half the world will need to retrain
Thanks to AI, old trains will be redundent
The IBM Institute for Business Value claims that 40 per cent of the world’s workers will need to be retrained within the next three years to cope with the changes of AI to their workloads.

Microsoft says that AI is the new “tidal wave”
This is a repeat of 1995
Microsoft is repeating a memo that Sir William Gates III wrote about the internet in 1995 only this time it is talking about AI.

Microsoft has five new AI policies
Terms and condition change
Software King of the World Microsoft is bringing in five new changes to its terms and conditions to handle AI.

Quantum computers could turbo-charge AI
Give it the muscle it needs
Quantum computing could turbo-charge AI into something "massively, universally transformative," according to the South China Morning Post.

Universal Music Group and Google want to dig up dead pop stars with AI
Keep cutting tracks long after the singer is dead
Universal Music Group and Google are considering developing a tool that people can use to create AI-generated music using popular artists' voices and melodies.

AI is the new tool of the patriarchy
Sending working women back to the 1900s
A new study by the McKinsey Global Institute claims that AI will kick more women than men out of the workforce.

Chinese boffins create RISC-V CPU in five hours
AI is risky business
A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI in which they tell the epic adventure of how they created a new industrial-scale RISC-V CPU in under five hours.

AMD is getting closer to Nvidia on AI
MosaicML has a look under the bonnet of both
Artificial intelligence chips from AMD are about 80 per cent as fast as those from Nvidia but the way its chips are designed means that it is going to match its performance soon.

Micron thinks AI will save it from China crisis
Reporting a huge third-quarter loss but sees light at end of tunnel
Micron reported a third-quarter loss and a 57 per cent drop in revenue yesterday, but its Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said that things could only get better.

SAP sees a bright future for AI
Another buzz word for us to make money from
The maker of expensive management software, which no one can be sure what it does, SAP has had its eyes lighting up over generative AI, according to its CEO.