OpenAI’s GPT-5 wins over enterprise despite user backlash
Corporates chase speed, cost, and brainpower
OpenAI might be taking flak for GPT-5’s "less intuitive" feel, but the enterprise crowd is lapping it up. The chatbot’s newly launched brainchild is already getting jammed into products across the coding and productivity world.
Perplexity offers $34.5bn to buy Chrome
AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better
Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.
Quantum computing arms race heats up
Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful
The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.
US consumers paying for Big Tech’s bargain power bills
Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward
State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.
Google trolls Apple over Siri AI shambles
Pixel 10 ad tells users its time to get a proper phone
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is once again being mocked for overpromising and underdelivering, this time by none other than rival Google.
Reputation fixer quietly vanishes articles with Google bug
CEO accused of scrubbing domestic violence arrest from search
A Silicon Valley suit has been accused of gaming Google's search system to wipe out unflattering articles about his past, using a little-known tool with a glaring flaw.
Apple flogs recycled Pixel feature with moody cat ad
iPhone’s “new” Clean Up tool is actually just Google’s Magic Eraser in drag
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has wheeled out its latest “innovation” for iOS 26, which is really just a old Google Pixel feature dressed up in Californian smug.
AI chips face energy crisis as startups take on Nvidia
Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives
Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.
UK VPN uptake rockets after age verification rules
Who didn't see that one coming?
The UK is seeing a huge rise in VPN use after the government bought in "child protection" laws.
Alphabet rides AI wave
ChatGPT hasn’t killed Google’s cash cow
Alphabet is laughing all the way to the bank with another quarter of fat profits, proving the panic over chatbots eating Google’s lunch was premature.
