Preorders weaker than predecessor

Enthusiasm over the new iPhone 16 series with a new shutter button and unclear Apple Intelligence (AI) strategy led to much lower iPhone 16 preorder numbers compared to the iPhone 15 generation. The numbers are lower in the EU as well as worldwide.

Just when you think the company could not be more popular

Just when you think Oracle could not become more popular with the great unwashed, its cofounder Larry Ellison decides to get the company involved with mass AI surveillance.

MLCommons benchmarks are in

MLCommons has released benchmarks comparing AMD's Instinct MI300X GPU with Nvidia's Hopper H100, H200, and Blackwell B200 GPUs.

IBM is the Secret Sauce for Gaudi 3

In a surprise development, Intel announced that IBM plans to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators as a service in the IBM cloud to help enterprises scale AI. IBM is a huge business-oriented company; such a partnership goes a long way.

I think we should be seeing other people

After working with Chipzilla to build AI processors for its Project Izanagi initiative, SoftBank is believed want to see other processor makers.

You probably were not expecting this

Elon [look at me] Musk’s AI chatbot launched a new image generation feature which users immediately used to troll the billionaire.

We thought he was opposed to that sort of thing

After launching court cases against organisations training AI based on scraping Twitter day, Elon [look at me] Musk has decided “I’ll be ‘aving me some of that.”

Scraping from other models is a bad thing

A new study published in Nature has found that training AI models using datasets created by other AI models can lead to “model collapse,” where the models start producing increasingly nonsensical outputs over time.

Important sources are forbidden

For years, people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images, and videos pulled from the Internet to train their models. Now, that data is drying up.

Unless the content producer says otherwise

Software King of the World Microsoft has stirred up some trouble by declaring that all web content is opened to be the scraped for AI training unless its producer said it cannot be.