Microsoft could walk away from OpenAI talks
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Huge deal wobbles as OpenAI pushes for profit pivot

Software King of the World, Microsoft is ready to bin its negotiations with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit tries to morph into a fully for-profit company.

Apple warned its AI will fail
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Wedbush analyst says Apple Intelligence is all gloss, no guts

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been warned that its Apple Intelligence is doomed and not close to matching what its rivals are doing.

AI used to shrink BT
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Kirkby wants to shrink BT, flog off bits

BT boss Allison Kirkby reckons artificial intelligence could slash more jobs than originally planned as she continues her campaign to hollow out the UK telecoms dinosaur while flogging off whatever bits aren’t nailed down.

Apple’s AI paper gets push-back from other boffins
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Probably because it doesn't understand what it's doing

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s research paper, pompously titled The Illusion of Thinking, which confidently claimed that large reasoning models (LRMs) collapse when asked to do anything clever, is faulty, according to a top boffin.

Apple defends its headless chicken AI strategy
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Job’s Mob reckons building Siri properly takes decades

After months of mocking silence about Siri’s “smarts” Apple executives have surfaced to defend their wobbly AI rollout and somehow made it sound like all part of the plan.