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Apple flubs its own AI support list
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Manages to confuse everyone with one tiny edit

Someone at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been tinkering with its Apple Intelligence pages again, and the result is the usual delightfully shambolic mess.

Brussels lines up Alphabet for another kicking
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EU watchdogs reckon Google has been fiddling with news rankings again

Brussels is sharpening its knives for Alphabet with a fresh probe into how Google ranks news outlets in search results.

Amazon and Microsoft backs chip limits as Nvidia gets squeezed
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Fancy first dibs on AI silicon

Brown box shifter Amazon is standing next to the software King of the World, Microsoft, in cheering new US laws that would clip Nvidia’s exports to China.

Nvidia will not lose out from Softbank exit
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SoftBank’s chip shuffle stirs the AI pot

SoftBank's theatrical exit by selling its $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia mattered far less to the chipmaker than the chatter suggested, because the holding was tiny beside a $4.8 trillion colossus and barely shifted the dial.

MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 proves efficiency cores are a waste of silicon
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Samsung’s Exynos refuses to learn the lesson

It takes a certain flair to kick off an industry trend, and MediaTek managed it when it lobbed efficiency cores out the window with its Dimensity 9300 in November 2023.