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.
Adobe shoves its wares into ChatGPT
Software giant scrambles to stay visible in the chatbot stampede
Adobe is stuffing three of its big-name apps into ChatGPT as it hustles to keep pace with a swelling mob of firms hitching themselves to the chatbot.
OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts
Ads creep into the bot that was meant to stay clean
OpenAI looks poised to repeat the same clangers that turned Amazon and YouTube into rolling billboards by shoving ads into ChatGPT.
Nvidia shrugs off market jitters with roaring AI sales
A blowout quarter sends investors scrambling for their calculators
Nvidia lit up the market with a quarterly surge that made the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street forget their nerves about runaway AI spending.
Cloudflare stumble knocks swathes of the internet offline
Morning traffic surge sends major sites into a tailspin
A sudden Cloudflare meltdown on Tuesday morning left large chunks of the internet wheezing as sites from social media to retail and transport threw up baffling error messages.
Former Intel boss turns to holy hardware
Kicking Pat Gelsinger wants ‘faith-based AI’
Ex-Chipzilla chief Patrick [Kicking] Gelsinger now preaching digital salvation through chatbots and church tech.
AI is being used as a scapegoat for downsizing
Firms blame the bots
Companies are swinging the redundancy axe and blaming artificial intelligence for it.
Bank of England fears AI bubble about to pop
Threadbare faith in AI valuations
The Bank of England has warned that the frothy optimism inflating the world’s biggest tech stocks could soon splatter across trading floors, saying the risk of a “sharp market correction” has grown alarmingly.
AI killing the internet
Users ditch clickbait for instant answers
A new study by Loopex Digital shows that major websites are haemorrhaging visitors as users increasingly turn to AI chat tools instead of clicking through to traditional pages.
OpenAI overtakes Musk’s SpaceX in valuation game
AI outfit now the priciest start-up on the planet
Chatgpt maker OpenAI has stitched up a deal that values the artificial intelligence outfit at $500 billion, putting it ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the most expensive start-up in the world.