Hype continues while details stay hidden

OpenAI boss Sam Altman reckons the company’s new hardware will prompt people to mutter “that’s it?… It’s so simple” the moment they clap eyes on it.

Bloomberg pours cold water on CEO-exit fantasies as engineers flee for shinier toys

The fruity cargo cult, Apple cannot even manage a clean rumour cycle these days, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now rubbish­ing earlier claims that Tim Cook was about to shuffle off the CEO perch next year.

Silicon Valley’s policy whisperer suddenly finds doors closing

Lawrence Summers has walked away from the OpenAI board, leaving a string of tech pals wondering how a man wired into half of Silicon Valley could think it clever to ask Jeffrey Epstein for personal advice.

Big Red’s grand AI punt keeps shredding its own valuation

Oracle’s market value has been sliding like a greased ferret since 10 September, when it trumpeted its $300bn deal with OpenAI and watched roughly $315bn vanish in the process.

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.

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.

Suleyman says it’s time for Redmond to build superintelligence

Software king of the world, Microsoft, has decided it no longer wants to be shackled to OpenAI and is setting off on its own grand plan for superintelligence.

xAI workers roped into building explicit avatars for Musk’s lonely fanboys

If you think your job sucks, imagine working for a supporter of right wing causes that compels you to give up your own biometric data to power his anime sexbot.

Inventor of the internet warns LLMs will stop people reading pages

The man who built the World Wide Web says generative AI is about to shove a crowbar into the internet’s multibillion-dollar advertising racket.

Industry teams try to stop criminals tricking chatbots into spilling secrets

Big language AI models are under a sustained assault and the tech world is scrambling to patch the holes.