AI chips face energy crisis as startups take on Nvidia
Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives
Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.
UK VPN uptake rockets after age verification rules
Who didn't see that one coming?
The UK is seeing a huge rise in VPN use after the government bought in "child protection" laws.
Alphabet rides AI wave
ChatGPT hasn’t killed Google’s cash cow
Alphabet is laughing all the way to the bank with another quarter of fat profits, proving the panic over chatbots eating Google’s lunch was premature.
Musk hunts for another $12 billion to fuel xAI’s AI arms race
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.
Zuckerberg ducks another courtroom grilling
Meta settles shareholder privacy suit without answers
Mark Zuckerberg and a group of past and present Meta bosses have wriggled out of an ugly $8 billion privacy trial, cutting a last-minute deal before the second day of testimony.
Meta bosses in Delaware court
Shareholder lawsuit challenges board oversight
Meta bigwigs are heading to a Delaware courtroom this week as minority investors target the board over privacy failures that led to billions in sanctions.
Nvidia hits $4 trillion and shows Apple the door
AI chip maker's epic rise leaves the competition in the dust
The AI chip peddler Nvidia just became the first company in history to tip over the $4 trillion valuation mark, elbowing past the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Microsoft on the Nasdaq on 10 July.
Geopolitics strangling AI server growth
Tariff fears and supply chain turmoil hit forecasts despite big tech spending spree
AI servers may be the backbone of today’s tech boom, but global shipment growth forecasts are slipping thanks to geopolitical headaches and tariff threats.
Microsoft axes 9,000 staff in AI cash shuffle
Tech giant sheds four per cent of workforce to keep AI wheels turning
Software King of the World, Microsoft is slashing around 9,000 jobs globally as it shuffles cash towards its ever-growing AI empire. The move carves out about four per cent of its 228,000-strong workforce and comes hot on the heels of earlier bloodlettings in May and January.
Microsoft AI out diagnoses doctors
Mustafa Suleyman’s robo-doc squad crushes NEJM case studies
Software King of the World, Microsoft has tested a new AI medical tool that it claims is four times better than human doctors at diagnosing tricky conditions.