Looking down the back of the sofa
Elon Musk is scraping together yet more billions to keep xAI from falling behind in the blood-soaked artificial intelligence arms race.
Chatbots chip away at Google’s dominance
AI-powered chatbots are fast becoming a go-to for online answers, eating into the long-standing grip of traditional search engines and giving marketers another headache.
N1X SoC delayed thanks to Microsoft, weak demand, and design tweaks
Nvidia’s big leap into Windows on Arm is already hitting speed bumps.
Microsoft can’t keep EU data out of US paws
Cloud Act clashes with Europe’s fantasy of digital sovereignty
Software King of the World, Microsoft has admitted it cannot keep French citizen data safe from the reach of US authorities, even when it is locked up in EU data centres.
Hackers breach government agencies, universities and energy firms while waiting for a fix
A CrowdStrike senior vice-president of cybersecurity has warned that anyone running a hosted SharePoint server is staring down the barrel of a major security nightmare.
TSMC rakes in record profits on AI frenzy
Chip giant warns of tariff risks despite surging demand
TSMC stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street on Thursday with a 61 per cent year-on-year jump in second-quarter profit, smashing records and beating expectations thanks to relentless demand for artificial intelligence silicon.
AMD rolls out bargain-basement Ryzen AI chip
Entry-level CPU with copilot+ pc support
AMD has lobbed another Ryzen AI 300-series processor into the mix, and this one is squarely aimed at the budget-conscious.
Trump’s UAE chip deal stalls over China threat
National security fears threaten Nvidia’s billion-dollar AI bonanza
A deal to ship billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI chips to the United Arab Emirates is stuck in the mud as Trump administration officials squabble over national security risks.
Intel slashes 5,000 more jobs in brutal cull
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.
Nvidia NTC slashes VRAM with DirectX boost
AI texture compression and DXR 1.2 deliver performance gains
Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) has taken a big leap forward thanks to Microsoft’s DirectX Cooperative Vector support in the latest DirectX Raytracing 1.2 update. Early tests show a dramatic reduction in VRAM consumption while delivering a major performance uplift.