Propped up by Red Hat

Biggish Blue shares dropped more than six per cent yesterday as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were worried about the outfit’s mixed earnings report for the third quarter.

Trying to influence the US election

Software King of the World Microsoft has noticed an uptick in the amount of attacks by foreign powers trying to influence the US elections.

Partner tried to get around Huawei ban

TSMC has told the US of a potential attempt by one of its clients to circumvent export controls related to chip technology bans on Huawei Technologies.

Claims it will save jobs

OpenAI and Microsoft are jointly funding an initiative to integrate artificial intelligence tools into the newsroom, claiming it will save 21st-century journalism.

Virtual workers 

Software King of the World, Microsoft is going to allow its punters to build autonomous AI agents and create virtual workers.

iPhone loses its shine

After years of talking up Apple’s iPhone, the Tame Apple Press is having to admit that the iPhone 16 is a dull product which needed to be a lot better.

Still the leader for now

OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,

Aimed at AI data centres

MSI has lifted the kimono on its Nvidia MGX-based AI servers which are being pitched to handle scalable, energy-efficient AI workloads in modern data centres.

As if reality was not fake enough 

The US Department of Defense wants technology to fabricate online personas indistinguishable from real people.

Positions involve spotting deep fakes created by AI

It appears that AI is starting to create work after all – working out how to spot AI deep fakes.