AI doctors hate women and minorities
Published in AI
Friday, 19 September 2025 10:08

AI doctors hate women and minorities


Bias baked into medical models 

Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.

Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
Published in PC Hardware


Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs

Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).

AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
Published in Graphics


Hopes devs finally look at its software stack

AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.

Google doing AI evil
Published in News
Tuesday, 16 September 2025 10:34

Google doing AI evil


Contractors sacked amid anger over pay and working conditions

While most companies are flinging cash and staff at AI, Google, has been firing the workers keeping its Gemini and AI Overviews systems afloat.

AI guts entry-level Indian outsourcing
Published in AI
Tuesday, 16 September 2025 10:18

AI guts entry-level Indian outsourcing


India’s hiring pyramid smashed

Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys created empires by piling armies of junior staff into a vast hiring pyramid.

UK’s AI ‘hit squad’ can’t hire enough staff
Published in News


Government unit underspends half its budget chasing scarce talent

A UK government artificial intelligence unit that was supposed to save £45 billion across the civil service managed to burn through less than half its budget last year.

SK hynix puts HBM4 into full production
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 12 September 2025 11:36

SK hynix puts HBM4 into full production


Chipmaker claims "World’s fastest AI memory" ready for mass rollout

SK hynix says it has wrapped up development of its HBM4 memory and is ready to churn it out for the AI bubble boom.

Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia
Published in News
Friday, 12 September 2025 09:30

Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia


Ellison bets the farm on AI 

Oracle  stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with a forecast that makes it look more like Nvidia than the dull database flogger it has been for decades.

Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPU targets AI inferencing arms race
Published in Graphics


Rack-sized monster to crush token counts

Nvidia has decided that building GPUs the size of small towns is the way to stay ahead in AI, and its latest weapon is the Rubin CPX which is aimed squarely at inferencing and large context models.

SASE market booms as AI-ready branches fuel demand
Published in News
Wednesday, 10 September 2025 11:00

SASE market booms as AI-ready branches fuel demand


Cisco and Palo Alto ride the SD-WAN gravy train

The Secure Access Service Edge market has seen a 22 per cent jump in revenue year-on-year, reaching $2.7 billion in the second quarter of 2025.