Back-to-office mandates accelerated staff exodus
Let my people go
Return-to-office mandates by Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent.
Sutskever leaves OpenAI
Off to pursue something deeply personal
OpenAI's co-founder and Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is departing the company to focus on "something deeply personal."
Priced at $269 and $169
AMD has officially launched two new Ryzen 8000 series SKUs, the Ryzen 7 8700F and the Ryzen 5 8400F. Based on the earlier released 8000-series APUs, these two Ryzen F-series SKUs come with disabled integrated graphics and the same 65W TDP.
You must be nicer to the cats
A team of Finnish boffins claim to be close to creating algorithms for quantum computers so that they can solve real world problems
Intel plans huge plant in Ireland
Not sure it will go through at all, at all
Chipzilla is in advanced talks for a deal with Apollo Global Management in which the equity firm would provide more than $11 billion to build a facility in Ireland.
Microsoft loses Cortana case
Must pay €224.07 million to IPA Technologies
A jury in Delaware just decided that the software king of the world, Microsoft, must fork over €224.07 million to IPA Technologies over some beef over patents with its Cortana virtual assistant.
Teams elbow out the competition
Brussels is gearing up to slap Microsoft with some fresh antitrust charges. It reckons the big tech firm is playing dirty with its Teams app, elbowing out the competition.
IBM outsources Granite code
AI tech goodness is given to Apache 2.0
Big Blue has been a busy bee, getting its Granite code out in the open by using stuff already out there for everyone to see, like GitHub Code Clean and other public code.
Biden gives $120 million to Polar Semiconductor
Might even buy the company
Polar Semiconductor in Bloomington, Minnesota might trouser up to €111.6 million ($120 million) under the Chip’s Act and there is a rumour that the US might even buy the company to keep its production on this side of the pond.
Catching up to AMD
Intel’s latest and greatest Aurora supercomputer, installed at Argonne National Laboratory, has smashed through the exascale barrier. Before this, only AMD’s Frontier system had managed to pull that off.