Anthropic wants to raise a fist full of dollars
Would make it worth $60 billion
AI outfit, Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion dollars in a deal that would value it at $60 billion, making it the latest artificial-intelligence startup to seize upon the AI hype.
New AMD GPUs a no show at CES
Everyone surprised
Observers at AMD’s CES 2025 keynote were surprised that Team Red had nothing to say about its coming RX 9000 series.
Intel sticking to its GPU plans
New CEO pledges protection
Despite rumours that Intel was going to abandon its GPU plans, it appears Chipzilla is going to stick with them.
Employers dock the pay of remote workers
Even if they cost the company less to hire
Companies who are desperate to prop up the roles of largely useless middle managers are docking the pay of remote workers to encourage them back to the office.
Sam Altman claims OpenAI can build Artificial General Intelligence
Will transform science, create the end of the world
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the AI startup has figured out how to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is now targeting superintelligent systems that could transform scientific discovery.
Next-Generation HDMI 2.2 announced
Bandwidth and performance leap
Seven years after the introduction of the HDMI 2.1 specification, the HDMI Forum has unveiled its successor with the imaginative and catchy title HDMI 2.2.
Microsoft declares 2025 to be the year of the Windows 11 refresh
Probably about the same time as Linux on the desktop
Software King of the World, Microsoft wants 2025 to be "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh."
Vole seems to have cloned Google
A sneaky move to retain Bing users
Software King of the World, Microsoft appears to have implemented a new and somewhat controversial tactic aimed at keeping users on Bing rather than losing them to Google.
AMD rumoured to develop Fire Range Successor
X3D Technology
AMD is allegedly working on a successor to its Dragon Range (Ryzen 7045HX) processor lineup, codenamed Fire Range.
TV streamers are managing to kill off their industry
Greed and too much competition
TV streaming companies are seeing their business die off as users give a thumbs down to their money-grubbing antics.