
Apple axes iPhone 16 advert
It pushed its only useful feature and it can't deliver it
The Fruity Cargo Cult has quietly yanked an ad for its iPhone 16 that showcased a so-called "more personal Siri," just days after admitting it was botching the rollout of its over-hyped AI features.

Microsoft trying to wean itself off OpenAI
Has its own plans
The software King of the World, Microsoft, appears to be making a not-so-subtle move to stab its AI partner in the back.

AI models start cheating at chess
Nuclear war is next
It turns out that AI models are not content with regurgitating human knowledge—they’re also picking up on our worst habits.

AI has made no difference to US GDP
Goldman Sachs concerned
Beancounters at Goldman Sachs are concerned that while there has been a spectacular revenue growth from AI-hungry public companies this has had no impact on the US’s GDP.

DeepSeek-R1 borrowed OpenAI texts
Nearly three quarters of them
A recent study by plagiarism experts Copyleaks has found that 74.2 per cent of texts generated by DeepSeek-R1 are strikingly similar to OpenAI's models.