
OpenAI snares $8.3bn as it angles for IPO
Investors line up for a slice
OpenAI has managed to wangle $8.3 billion from venture capitalists and private equity outfits desperate not to miss the AI hype train, as it eyes an eventual IPO.

Musk open to merging his AI outfit with Apple
Grok could plug a hole in Apple’s leaky AI strategy
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might end up jumping into bed with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence sideshow xAI, after whispers of a strategic tie-up started swirling around tech circles.

Intel has a bite at the lower-end
Power-efficient Arrow Lake chips arrive on the sly
Troubled Chipzilla has shoved a few more low-end Arrow Lake chips out the door, hoping no one would notice unless they were really paying attention.

ARM wants to build is own silicon
SoftBank-backed firm taking on AMD and Intel
ARM is apparently tired of flogging CPU blueprints and wants to play with the big boys by building its own chips. That means going head-to-head with Troubled Chipzilla and AMD in the high-stakes silicon game.

Tim Cook insists the iPhone is not dead
Its just resting
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's supreme dalek Tim Cook has tried to calm jittery investors worried that AI might finally kill off the sacred iPhone cash cow.