Brussels still wants its pound of silicon

Troubled Chipzilla has lost its latest attempt to shake off an EU antitrust ruling, though Europe’s judges did trim a chunky slice off the fine.

Only helps China

US President Donald Trump's cunning plan to get a 25 per cent cut of Nvidia's AI chip sales to China by allowing the outfit to sell behind the bamboo curtain has been dismissed as nuts.

Copper, packaging tweaks that work

Samsung’s Exynos chips were once shorthand for thermal throttling, but the Exynos 2600 suggests those days may finally be numbered.

Smaller customers face brutal price hikes

Broadcom has killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, dealing another sharp blow to smaller customers already squeezed by rising costs.

Altman hopes a souped-up model will stop Google and Anthropic stealing its lunch

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.2 and declared it its sharpest tool yet for professional knowledge work as the outfit scrambles to keep punters from wandering off to flashier rivals.

AI turf war slides into court with accusations of poaching and data theft

Palantir has widened its legal assault on a rival AI outfit, accusing former staff of looting its talent, customers and confidential material.

Analysts moan about the margins as shares wobble

Broadcom delivered another slab of AI-fuelled growth and still managed to spook the market in after-hours trading.

Pocket-sized box promises to run 120 billion parameter models

Tiiny AI reckons it has cracked the code for shoving an AI supercomputer into a device so small it could vanish into your jacket lining.

Microsoft's default Calibri is too "woke"

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tightened his grip on the culture war by ordering diplomats to ditch Calibri typefaces for Times New Roman, apparently unaware that the venerable serif has spent decades carrying some of the most “woke” books ever printed.

Prime minister shrugs off the mess as kids flaunt their workarounds

Australia’s under-16 social media ban had barely landed before the country’s feeds filled with teenagers loudly proving they could dodge it, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to defend the scheme as fair dinkum.