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Intel bins its open-source Gaudi user-space code
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Another self-inflicted wound for Intel’s AI accelerator ambitions

Troubled Chipzilla has abandoned the open-source user-space code needed to make Gaudi accelerators useful on Linux.

Washington pulls the plug on UK tech deal as trade rows fester
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Trump team leans on London for wider concessions.

Washington has slammed the brakes on a shiny £31bn US-UK technology pact, turning a Trump-era photo op into another trade headache for London.

Microsoft finally bins RC4 after decades of pain
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Ancient cypher meets its end after years of hacks and warnings

Software King of the World, Microsoft, is pulling the plug on RC4, an obsolete and leaky encryption cypher it has propped up by default for 26 years despite a trail of break-ins and public embarrassment.

LG stuffs Copilot onto smart TVs
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Forced webOS update leaves users stuck with Microsoft AI

LG has shoved Microsoft Copilot onto its smart TVs, leaving baffled owners staring at an app they never asked for and cannot remove.

Coreweave’s AI dream springs a leak
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Rain, debt and mixed messages rattle the boom.

CoreWeave has managed to torch about $33 billion in market value in six weeks, which is quite a trick even by AI hype standards.