Amazon works out a way to kill off Alexa
Why not shove in adverts?
Amazon has just come up with a wizard wheeze to kill off its Alexa product by making it unusable by stuffing each conversation with more adverts.
Tariff woes dent TSMC’s seasonal surge
Chip giant’s fourth quarter could fizzle despite AI buzz
Tariff tantrums from the US have started to rattle TSMC’s booming run, with signs that the Christmas consumer rush might be more of a limp than a sprint.
Musk open to merging his AI outfit with Apple
Grok could plug a hole in Apple’s leaky AI strategy
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might end up jumping into bed with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence sideshow xAI, after whispers of a strategic tie-up started swirling around tech circles.
Tim Cook insists the iPhone is not dead
Its just resting
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's supreme dalek Tim Cook has tried to calm jittery investors worried that AI might finally kill off the sacred iPhone cash cow.
Advice gap blocks AI productivity push
Confused leadership teams split on tech vs people
Mid-sized companies chasing productivity gains with AI and automation are hitting a wall, because they don't know what to do next.
AMD eyes standalone AI cards for consumer PCs
Discrete NPUs to your desktop
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth rumour claiming that AMD is toying with the idea of a discrete NPU card for consumer PCs.
Palo Alto Networks swallows CyberArk
It needed a bigger boat
Palo Alto Networks has splashed out $25 billion to swallow Israeli identity security outfit CyberArk Software in what’s shaping up to be the most expensive cyber buy of 2025.
Micron rolls out SSDs for AI data centres
Power-saving speed demons arrive as AI infrastructure gets a storage upgrade
Micron boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs after shoving some serious tech into their latest SSDs to give artificial intelligence an extra kick in the circuits.
Italian AI cult leader jailed after victim ditches chemo
Quantum physics, bogus cures, and "miraculous" AI Marie
A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI.
Nvidia’s banned AI chips flood China’s black market
More than a $1bn of restricted B200 processors slipped through in three months
Washington’s plan to restrain China’s AI ambitions is already failing as more than $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s high-end AI chips entered China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened export curbs.