Cloud and ad growth push revenues to new highs as AI costs soar

Google’s parent Alphabet is swimming in cash after the AI tide lifted its cloud and ad businesses to record levels.

Unlikely to be as good as Nvidia

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has started shipping artificial intelligence servers from its new Houston plant months earlier than expected.

2nm Exynos could give the Galaxy S26 a head start

Samsung’s next top-tier mobile processor, the Exynos 2600, is tipped to be built on the company’s own 2nm fabrication process, putting it ahead of Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is being produced on TSMC’s 3nm node.

17 quantum builders and nine US labs join forces

Nvidia has lifted the kimono on NVQLink, a new open system architecture that connects quantum processors directly to potentially dead or alive cat powered GPU supercomputers to power the next wave of quantum-classical research.

Microsoft stake hits 27 per cent

OpenAI has junked its oddball structure for a plain-vanilla corporation and, in the process, helped Microsoft waft above a $4 trillion valuation.

Huang praises Trump, touts US-made GPUs and signs a billion-dollar buddy list

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang took to the stage in Washington for the company’s first-ever technology conference in the US capital and turned the whole thing into something a little more MAGA than before.

Customers still want humans

Agentic AI is transforming customer service in the insurance world by delivering fast, intelligent responses while still leaning on human backup to keep everything from going off the rails.

Company pushes 800 VDC to feed power-hungry GPUs and cut copper

Nvidia has admitted that alternating current is no longer up to the job in AI data centres where inferencing surges and bandwidth spikes are battering power infrastructure.

CXMT hands Huawei a taste of local HBM

China’s memory outfit ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has managed to get HBM3 samples out the door and into the hands of local AI firms, with Huawei among the first in line.

Cambridge boffins say your eyes can’t tell the difference

It turns out those extra pixels crammed into flashy 4K and 8K TVs might be nothing more than showroom nonsense.