Trump's AI buddies spark drama as Elon tries to squeeze in

OpenAI’s latest scheme to slap one of the world’s biggest AI data centres in Abu Dhabi nearly came off the rails thanks to Elon Musk having a fit about being left out.

Elon, Altman and Huang trot out for Redmond’s power play

Software King of the World, Microsoft flexed its cloud muscle this week, wheeling out its AI mates and fresh software toys in a pitch to dominate the artificial intelligence land grab.

Former Apple designer likely to cook up an expensive mystery box

OpenAI has confirmed it’s entering the hardware game, teaming up with former Job’s Mob design messiah Jony Ive to birth a new line of AI gadgets, though no one’s quite sure what they’ll do yet.

Until someone has a new idea, this is all just expensive word salad

The tech industry is running full tilt towards Artificial General Intelligence, but the tools it’s using barely understand sarcasm, let alone reality.

Chinese AI startup's R1 model scored real points

DeepSeek’s R1 model has done what no one else has managed and gotten Microsoft's top brass to admit OpenAI might finally have a proper rival.

Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance

OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry. 

Charity keeps the leash as Altman plots trillion-dollar AI dreams

OpenAI has abruptly U-turned on its plans to go full corporate, deciding instead to let its nonprofit arm keep control of the outfit’s shiny new for-profit structure.

All roads lead to Chrome

ChatGPT wouldn’t mind getting its paws on Chrome, if the courts end up prying it from Google’s iron grip.

Claude, ChatGPT, and other big names fail to fix even half the bugs in benchmark test

Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google's code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.

Microsoft plays it slow and strategic

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, maybe sitting on mountains of Nvidia GPUs, but it’s not exactly in a hurry to fire them up on bleeding-edge AI projects.