AI offers no significant improvements to developers
Introduced more bugs
A recent Uplevel report found that AI was not the helpful tool developers and their bosses thought it might be.
China creates single generative AI
Can run across several data centres
China has developed a single generative AI (GAI) model across multiple data centres—a massive feat considering the complexity of using different GPUs in a single data centre, let alone servers in multiple geographic locations.
AI PCs to make 60 per cent of PC sales in 2027
Three times more than this year
The surging demand for AI-driven applications has boosted the popularity of AI PCs, both in consumer and professional sectors. This trend is expected to continue in the following years, with AI PC gaining a much more significant market share than this year.
iPhone 16 / Pro pre orders are low in EU
Preorders weaker than predecessor
Enthusiasm over the new iPhone 16 series with a new shutter button and unclear Apple Intelligence (AI) strategy led to much lower iPhone 16 preorder numbers compared to the iPhone 15 generation. The numbers are lower in the EU as well as worldwide.
Oracle goes “all in” for AI surveillance
Just when you think the company could not be more popular
Just when you think Oracle could not become more popular with the great unwashed, its cofounder Larry Ellison decides to get the company involved with mass AI surveillance.
AMD’s Instinct MI300X is competitive with Nvidia's H100 on AI
MLCommons benchmarks are in
MLCommons has released benchmarks comparing AMD's Instinct MI300X GPU with Nvidia's Hopper H100, H200, and Blackwell B200 GPUs.
IBM gets Gaudi 3 Enterprise AI to the Cloud
IBM is the Secret Sauce for Gaudi 3
In a surprise development, Intel announced that IBM plans to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators as a service in the IBM cloud to help enterprises scale AI. IBM is a huge business-oriented company; such a partnership goes a long way.
SoftBank shifts focus to TSMC after Intel fails to deliver on AI
I think we should be seeing other people
After working with Chipzilla to build AI processors for its Project Izanagi initiative, SoftBank is believed want to see other processor makers.
Musk’s AI image generation backfires on him
You probably were not expecting this
Elon [look at me] Musk’s AI chatbot launched a new image generation feature which users immediately used to troll the billionaire.
Musk scrapes X data to feed his AI
We thought he was opposed to that sort of thing
After launching court cases against organisations training AI based on scraping Twitter day, Elon [look at me] Musk has decided “I’ll be ‘aving me some of that.”