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.

India’s hiring pyramid smashed

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Taiwanese foundry forced to plan packaging a year in advance

TSMC is finding itself on the back foot as demand for its advanced packaging tech has exploded thanks to the AI chip gold rush, with firms like Nvidia breathing down its neck.

AI is cool for Catz

Oracle has stopped sulking about being late to cloud and is banging on about how it has become a must-have for the AI set.

IDC says Datacentre growth leads the way

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and reckon the global semiconductor market will hit $800 billion in 2025, up 17.6 per cent from $680 billion last year.