Jobs’ Mob loses Chinese market
Apple falls far from China’s tree
The fruity cargo cult Apple is no longer a thing in what used to be one of its biggest markets.
Musk claims he has "the world's most powerful AI training cluster"
For a man of his size
Elon [look at me] Musk took time out from his daughter’s comments about him being on ketamine to claim that he had started training "the world's most powerful AI training cluster" at xAI's new supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee.
Early Arrow Lake benchmarks dire for Intel
Not an improvement really
Early benchmarks for Intel’s coming Arrow Lake seem to show that it can only offer a four per cent improvement over Raptor Lake
OpenAI tests Google-beating SearchGPT
Could hit Google’s search business
OpenAI has launched its SearchGPT prototype, which promises to shake up the online search by combining AI capabilities with real-time web information, potentially changing how users interact with search engines.
Users on the run from Oracle’s runtime environment
It seems that Oracle might have misjudged
Only 14 per cent of Oracle Java subscribers plan to stay on the outfit’s runtime environment after the company thought it would be a wizard wheeze to bring in an employee-based subscription model.
Video game performers strike again over AI
Talks break down
Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike on Thursday, causing another work stoppage in the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with significant game studios broke down over AI protections.
Too much data can cause an AI model to collapse
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.
SAP to lose 9-10,000 jobs by 2025
Most voluntary
The maker of expensive esoteric management software, which no one is quite sure what it does, SAP, has announced a restructuring programme which will impact between 9,000 and 10,000 SAPS by early 2025.
Buffet was right
Cyber security insurance is a mugs’ game
Earlier this year Warren Buffett, who has his paws in a lot of insurance companies, warned them that it would be unwise to provide cyber security insurance policies because these would always run at a loss.
SK Hynix reports highest second-quarter profit in six years
Wall Street not impressed
SK Hynix announced that its second-quarter profit has reached its highest level in six years as it maintains its leadership in advanced memory chips critical for artificial intelligence computing.