UK’s £45bn AI savings claim torn to shreds in parliament
MPs hear the maths relies on automation fairy dust
The British government’s £45 billion (€52.7 billion) AI “savings” pitch ran into a buzzsaw on 15 October 2025 as witnesses told MPs the numbers look fanciful without real cuts.
Apple’s M5 pitch leans hard on its AI
Job’s Mob hypes specs
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has rolled out new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Apple Vision Pro models and stuffed them with a shiny M5, which it claims is finally ready for the AI era.
Google’s pricey Indian AI play
A big data centre lands in Andhra, water worries tag along
Alphabet AI is opening its wallet in India and will pour $15bn into a 1GW AI data centre in Visakhapatnam over five years, teaming with Adani Group and Airtel.
TSMC smashes profit record again on AI chip frenzy
Monster demand for GPUs and HPC silicon
Taiwan’s semiconductor darling TSMC has once again bathed in the glow of the AI gold rush, reporting a massive 39.1 per cent jump in third-quarter profit and setting a fresh all-time record.
Advania claims it will build sovereign AI clouds
Goldman Sachs-backed firm bets on local data
Nordic IT services outfit Advania, which is part of Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ portfolio, has decided to splash out on building multi-tenant sovereign AI clouds in every one of its seven markets.
Apple about to lose grip over TSMC
Fruity cargo cult’s chip clout under threat
The fruity cargo cult Apple may be about to lose its long-held grip over TSMC as Nvidia muscles in with a deluge of orders for high-performance computing parts and AI kit.
Oracle’s twin CEOs push AI data centre splurge
Insist OpenAI gamble will pay off
Oracle’s new dual boss setup has come out swinging in defence of its expensive data centre expansion, insisting the firm is uniquely placed to make artificial intelligence useful for businesses.
Bank of England fears AI bubble about to pop
Threadbare faith in AI valuations
The Bank of England has warned that the frothy optimism inflating the world’s biggest tech stocks could soon splatter across trading floors, saying the risk of a “sharp market correction” has grown alarmingly.
IBM says consultancies must turn into software firms or die
Big Blue’s consulting boss warns that AI agents are coming for the old guard
IBM Consulting boss Mohamad Ali has warned that consultancies will have to reinvent themselves as software companies if they want to survive the artificial intelligence revolution.
AI killing the internet
Users ditch clickbait for instant answers
A new study by Loopex Digital shows that major websites are haemorrhaging visitors as users increasingly turn to AI chat tools instead of clicking through to traditional pages.