Fanboys insist we are getting the numbers wrong 

For years, Linux fanboys have been insisting that this year will be the time of Linux on the desktop. Now, ZDnet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols thinks the take-up of Linux is much higher than numbers suggest.

Loan me a trillion until next Friday, gov?

OpenAI is burning through cash at a staggering rate, and HSBC’s latest sums suggest the bonfire is far bigger than most expected.

Seoul throws cash and clout at its own AI destiny

The global AI arms race between China and the US has smaller nations nervously eyeing their supply lines, fearing they will end up beholden to the whims of the superpowers.

Defecting Windows users make up the bulk of the curious crowd

Open saucy Zorin OS 18 has clocked a million downloads in a single month, which is not bad for a Linux distro trying to lure disillusioned Windows refugees.

Invests billions away from Finland

Former rubber boot maker Nokia is chucking billions into the US as it tries to make its networking gear look clever enough for the AI circus.

Wall Street still fears a bubble

The cocaine-nose jobs of Wall Street are not buying Nvidia's stellar results, and still fear that all that investment in AI is a bubble.

A blowout quarter sends investors scrambling for their calculators

Nvidia lit up the market with a quarterly surge that made the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street forget their nerves about runaway AI spending.

One-gigawatt Claude commitment shows how frantic the AI gold rush has become

Nvidia has finally smoked a peace pipe with Anthropic after years of sniping, proving that the AI boom is now so ravenous it can turn rivals into drinking buddies.

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.

Zelnick reckons consoles stay alive, but the real action moves elsewhere.

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick fired a shot across the bow by saying the games business is drifting toward PCs as the next decade rolls in.