Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS Summary Microsoft’s Windows and Devices lead Pavan Davuluri outlined a push to make Windows increasingly multimodal —…
Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Summary DeepSeek, the Chinese AI model developer behind the R1 launch earlier this year, hit a major snag while trying to…
DARPA’s Cylon raider autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase Summary DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) programme has moved from phase one to phase two following an $11.3m contract modification…
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost Summary Manufacturer Foxconn reported Q2 revenue up 16% to NT$1.79 trillion and operating profit up 27% to…
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Summary Chinese internet giant Tencent told investors during its Q2 earnings…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary Researchers from King’s College London presented findings at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that system-prompt engineering can turn…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the widely touted AI cost-savings are largely illusory and that organisations may…
Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene Summary Google has released Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270‑million‑parameter language model that runs in roughly 550MB of RAM…
Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics Summary Nvidia’s huge GPU shipments and hyperscaler demand are driving a boom in Ethernet networking sales. Cisco reported…
Oracle cuts cloud jobs with Seattle hit hard as AI spending soars Summary Oracle issued WARN layoff notices for 161 employees in Seattle and 143 in Redwood City, California, effective…
