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.
AMD’s AI chip hype falls flat
Santa Clara outfit fails to impress investors with sluggish data centre gains
AMD fluffed its lines again in the AI chip race, posting second-quarter data centre revenue that barely moved the needle despite the market frenzy around artificial intelligence.
Beijing gives Nvidia a kicking over H20 chip
Claims of tracking tech and remote shutdown
Nvidia’s charm offensive in China has taken a nosedive after Beijing summoned the firm to explain what it claimed were “serious security issues” buried in its made-for-China AI chips.
Google trolls Apple over Siri AI shambles
Pixel 10 ad tells users its time to get a proper phone
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is once again being mocked for overpromising and underdelivering, this time by none other than rival Google.