Microsoft says AI agents will kill off SaaS by 2030
Lamanna reckons business software is already a walking corpse
Software King of the World, Microsoft has declared that traditional business software is as good as dead and is betting big that AI agents will have finished the job by 2030.
OpenAI’s GPT-5 wins over enterprise despite user backlash
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.
Simply NUC becomes SNUC Systems
Focus on AI-powered computing platforms built for the edge
Simply NUC has announced a shift in the company's focus, becoming SNUC Systems, and focusing on delivering AI-powered computing platforms purpose-built for the edge. This also means we won't see any more Simply NUC-built systems.
Lenovo rides AI PC hype to record sales
Claims top spot in smart boxes while rivals scramble
Lenovo has kicked off its fiscal year by flogging more PCs than ever and is crowing about its AI leadership.
DeepSeek’s R2 model delayed
Beijing’s homegrown chip dream still can’t train properly
Chinese AI outfit DeepSeek has been forced to eat humble pie after its shiny new model flopped on Huawei’s Ascend chips, dragging a planned May launch into the long grass and handing rivals the chance to surge ahead.
Foxconn surprises Wall Street
iPhone assembly into second place
Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, did much better than expectations with its second quarter numbers.
Nvidia rolls out 7bn-parameter AI brain for robots
Cosmos Reason makes robots think like humans
Nvidia has decided your next robot needs to think a little more like you, or at least the better bits of you, with the launch of its new inference visual language model “Cosmos Reason.”
Vancouver Wired for AI, Real-Time Graphics, and What’s Next
SIGGRAPH 2025 preview
World’s biggest graphics conference returns to Canada with a heavy dose of neural rendering, immersive tech—and a few surprises still under wraps.
Microsoft raids Deepmind for AI talent
Claims Vole is more of a start up than Google
Mustafa Suleyman [pictured] is luring top engineers from Google’s DeepMind into Microsoft’s AI division by claiming that Vole has much more of a start-up mentality these days.
Nvidia slams idea of backdoors in AI chips
Kill switches would be a gift to hackers, not national security
Nvidia has come out swinging against the idea of embedding backdoors or kill switches in its AI hardware, calling the notion dangerous and unworkable.