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AI code developers work longer hours and don’t produce better code
Published in AI


Still think Copilot helps them

Code developers using Copilot work longer hours and produce less quality code despite thinking that AI helps.

Nvidia wants to employ 50,000 Workers
Published in AI
Wednesday, 16 October 2024 10:23

Nvidia wants to employ 50,000 Workers


100 million AI Assistants

The leather-coated balloon waiting to burst, Nvidia's Jensen Huang wants his company to have 50,000 employees with 100 million, AI assistants.

A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man
Published in AI
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 11:08

A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man


Cat says Meta Man is dumber than AI

Meta senior researcher Yann LeCun told the Wall Street Journal that humanity has nothing to fear from A.I. and that it is “dumber than a cat.”

Adobe releases video AI model
Published in News
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 10:48

Adobe releases video AI model


Firefly builds video content from text prompts

Adobe has started publicly distributing an AI model to generate video from text prompts.

AI is pants, claims Apple
Published in AI
Monday, 14 October 2024 09:38

AI is pants, claims Apple


If we can’t invent it no one can

While Apple is unable to get a decent AI product on the market, it has decided to invest in scientific research which claims the whole thing is pants anyway.

AMD launches Instinct MI325X Accelerator for AI workloads
Published in Graphics


With 256GB HBM3E memory and 2.6 PFLOPs of FP8 compute performance

At its Advancing AI event, AMD announced its newest Instinct MI300X series accelerator, the Instinct MI325X. The new AI accelerator is based on CDNA 3 architecture, packs 153 billion transistors, comes with 256GB of HBM3E memory on 16-Hi stacks with up to 6TB/s of memory bandwidth, and offering 2.6 PFLOPs or FP8 and 1.3 PFLOPs of FP16 performance.

Software engineers have two years to upskill
Published in AI
Thursday, 10 October 2024 11:11

Software engineers have two years to upskill


Or collect their P45s and pink slips

More than  80 per cent of the software engineering workforce will need to upskill by 2027, to keep pace with the growing demands of generative AI.

Google forcing better Gemini integration in WhatsApp
Published in Mobiles


Part of its cunning plan to replace Google Assistant

Search engine outfit Google is working on making its Gemini AI project more tightly integrated with WhatsApp.

Samsung says sorry for the loses
Published in News
Wednesday, 09 October 2024 11:35

Samsung says sorry for the loses


About a billion short

Samsung has issued an unusual apology after announcing it expects to post just €6.78 billion in operating profit for the most recent quarter, falling approximately €900 million short of analyst expectations.

Super Micro Computer surprises Wall Street
Published in News
Wednesday, 09 October 2024 10:05

Super Micro Computer surprises Wall Street


Shipped more graphics processors than predicted

Super Micro Computer surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with the news that it is currently shipping more than 100,000 graphics processors per quarter and has unveiled a new suite of liquid cooling products.