
Nadella reckons DeepSeek finally gave OpenAI competition
Chinese AI startup's R1 model scored real points
DeepSeek’s R1 model has done what no one else has managed and gotten Microsoft's top brass to admit OpenAI might finally have a proper rival.

Microsoft and OpenAI bicker over AI
Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance
OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry.

OpenAI bottles it on for-profit switch
Charity keeps the leash as Altman plots trillion-dollar AI dreams
OpenAI has abruptly U-turned on its plans to go full corporate, deciding instead to let its nonprofit arm keep control of the outfit’s shiny new for-profit structure.

OpenAI eyes Chrome if regulators gut Google
All roads lead to Chrome
ChatGPT wouldn’t mind getting its paws on Chrome, if the courts end up prying it from Google’s iron grip.

AI still pants at debugging, says Microsoft study
Claude, ChatGPT, and other big names fail to fix even half the bugs in benchmark test
Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google's code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.

Vole's AI boss says chasing the AI frontier is for mugs
Microsoft plays it slow and strategic
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, maybe sitting on mountains of Nvidia GPUs, but it’s not exactly in a hurry to fire them up on bleeding-edge AI projects.

Vole jams brakes on global server sprawl
Microsoft trims data centre ambitions
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, is quietly pulling back on data centre projects from Chicago to Jakarta as jitters grow over AI demand forecasts and the cost of building its cloudy empire.

Microsoft moved by DeepSeek’s AI blitz
Getting more from it than ChatGPT
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has been playing with DeepSeek’s R1, and it appears to be impressed.

OpenAI's GPU inferno forces ChatGPT image throttle
Too many pictures, not enough silicon
OpenAI's shiny new toy is already running hot—literally.

OpenAI pulls free GPT-4o image generator
Users started making Studio Ghibli-style renditions
OpenAI's latest attempt to dazzle us with AI wizardry has hit a predictable snag. After unleashing its GPT-4o image generator to the masses, users promptly flooded social media with Studio Ghibli-style renditions of everything from family portraits to iconic movie scenes.