Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog
Border chaos and visa fees are turning conferences into Europe-and-Asia only
Computerworld columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols is warning that foreign tech workers are avoiding attending US events and are not interested in jobs in the Land of the Fee.
Nadella rearranges the deckchairs on Microsoft’s Titanic AI efforts
After the OpenAI reset, he wants speed, talent and fewer meetings
Softwar King of the World Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, has spent this year reshaping senior leadership to keep the 50-year-old software giant ahead in AI, after it reworked its relationship with OpenAI.
Chipmakers expect next year to be a feeding frenzy
Bubble still bubbling
Chipmakers are expecting to trouser billions in cash next year after pulling in more than $400 billion in combined sales in 2025, the largest year for chips on record.
Big Tech hiding AI debt
A few trillion here, a few trillion there, and suddenly you are talking about real money
Big Tech companies have moved more than $120 billion of data centre spending off their balance sheets using special purpose vehicles funded by the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street, stirring fresh jitters about the financial risks of their huge bet on artificial intelligence.
TSMC’s N-2 rule leaves US big tech snuffling around Samsung’s 2nm
Taiwan keeps the sharp stuff at home, so Texas is suddenly popular.
TSMC has one hand tied behind its back, and Samsung Electronics is trying to cash in.
Oracle’s AI binge rattles markets as Blue Owl flies off
Debt fears grow while Wall Street whispers about a popping bubble
Blue Owl Capital has walked away from talks to bankroll a $10 billion data centre for Oracle in Saline Township, Michigan, a flagship project meant to feed OpenAI.
Baltra is just another Apple chip to feed the inference beast
Custom silicon, same old dependency
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's over-hyped server chip may be to provide the outfit with its own cloud AI silicon, which is getting too expensive.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2
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.
Broadcom rides AI boom, but the market still flinches
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.
Brussels pokes Google over AI content grab
EU watchdog eyes whether the search giant juiced its models with other people’s graft
Brussels has fired up a fresh antitrust probe into Google after worries that the outfit has been gobbling up uploaded content from places such as YouTube to bulk out its artificial intelligence tools.