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Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz
Published in AI
Friday, 28 March 2025 11:13

Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz


Getting more from it than ChatGPT

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has been playing with DeepSeek’s R1, and it appears to be impressed.

ChatGPT hamstrung by hypersensitive terms and conditions
Published in News


Ancient religious fears

OpenAI’s flagship AI assistant, ChatGPT, is finding itself constrained by its efforts to appease religious groups.

AI crawler bots turn open source into a digital warzone
Published in News


Anubis protects Xe Iaso's Git repository 

Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers.

Cloud engineers are top AI users
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 10:38

Cloud engineers are top AI users


Cybersecurity plays catch-up

Cloud Engineers are the new AI overlords, leaving everyone else to squabble over second place, according to a new report.

Ex-Intel boss trades chips for church chatbots
Published in News


Still living on a prayer

Once tasked with rescuing Troubled Chipzilla from its decade-long spiral into mediocrity, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has now found his true calling.

Job’s Mob keeps switching Apple Intelligence back on
Published in Mobiles


It seems the intelligent thing to do

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has once again decided it knows better than its users. With its latest iOS 18.3.2 update, it’s quietly forcing Apple Intelligence back on—even if Apple fanboys told it to sod off.

Scaling up will not solve AI problems
Published in AI
Monday, 24 March 2025 11:09

Scaling up will not solve AI problems


Boffins tell Big Tech to stop sniffing GPU fumes 

The people who build artificial intelligence have finally acknowledged have warned that endlessly increasing hardware for AI models is about as effective as solving climate change by buying more SUVs.

Clearview AI tried to buy 690 million arrest records
Published in News


What could possibly go wrong?

Surveillance-snoop-for-hire Clearview AI attempted to snap up nearly 700 million arrest records and 390 million mugshots—complete with Social Security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers.

Gelsinger claims Nvidia’s AI GPUs are overpriced
Published in News


Jensen just got lucky on AI

It appears that former troubled Chipzilla CEO Pat Gelsinger is still upset about Nvidia’s AI dominance, taking a swipe at Jensen Huang’s pricing strategy and implying that Nvidia’s meteoric rise in AI was more a matter of luck than strategy.

Solidigm ditches fans
Published in News
Thursday, 20 March 2025 10:06

Solidigm ditches fans


Goes full water-cooled for AI SSD at GTC 2025

Solidigm has just removed the fans from its enterprise SSDs and submerged them in liquid cooling at GTC 2025.