Axe in the corridors

Troubled Chipzilla is showing no mercy as it swings the axe on more than 5,000 employees across four US states in its latest bid to slash costs.

Altman eyes Google's ad cash and your data

OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to lob an AI-powered browser into the ring, taking a swing at Alphabet’s Chrome and hoping to nick a chunk of the Google empire’s advertising goldmine.

Before users get too comfortable

OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are working to rein in a growing problem with their chatbots: excessive flattery. The models are increasingly prone to giving users agreeable responses that prioritise validation over accuracy.

Zuckerberg goes headhunting to close AI gap

Meta is reportedly throwing $15 billion at Scale AI for a 49 per cent stake, desperately trying to headhunt is way up the AI pecking order after being left in the dust by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

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.

Has its own plans

The software King of the World, Microsoft, appears to be making a not-so-subtle move to stab its AI partner in the back.

 Would make it worth $60 billion

AI outfit, Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion dollars in a deal that would value it at $60 billion, making it the latest artificial-intelligence startup to seize upon the AI hype.

DEF CON AI Village People looking for flaws 

This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.