Meta splashes more than $2 billion on Manus
Wanted to swallow AI agents, and found one with Chinese roots
Meta Platforms has snaffled AI startup Manus, a Singapore-based firm with Chinese founders that does deep research and other paid tasks for users.
AI models line up to mess with games
Developers are concerned about AI slop
DeepMind and World Labs reckon AI can spit out new interactive 3D worlds, while developers are worried about AI slop, cost cuts and another round of “disruption”.
ByteDance to increase AI spending in 2026, aiming to challenge US
AI expansion goes global as ByteDance aims to compete
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is set to ramp up its AI investments significantly next year.
US tech industry in recession
Only AI work going
America's unemployment rate for tech jobs hit four per cent in November, continuing a steady climb since May, according to the Washington Post, citing data from CompTIA.
Chinese AI Giants skirt export ban with GPU rentals
Workaround sees Tencent and others tap into Nvidia Blackwell chips
While Blackwell chips remain off-limits for direct export to China, Chinese AI heavyweights have found an unexpected loophole to access Nvidia's latest silicon.
AI memory boom drives Micron to record quarter
Data centre demand and HBM sales send revenues soaring while refits bite consumers
Micron Technology smashed expectations with record quarterly results as AI-driven memory demand powered revenues higher, margins expanded sharply, and data centre sales reshaped the business.
Sweden tops Europe’s AI readiness league
Scandinavia tightens its grip on artificial intelligence adoption
Sweden has been named Europe’s most AI-ready country, scoring a perfect 100 after investing more than €3.2 billion in related technologies and building a solid digital backbone.
Intel bins its open-source Gaudi user-space code
Another self-inflicted wound for Intel’s AI accelerator ambitions
Troubled Chipzilla has abandoned the open-source user-space code needed to make Gaudi accelerators useful on Linux.
AI designs a Linux box in a week, and it boots first time
Silicon donkey work is handed to the machines
LA-based startup Quilter says its Project Speedrun used AI to create a dual-PCB Linux single-board computer with 843 components in a week, then booted Debian on the first power-up.
Firefox gets new AI friendly CEO
Flirts with AI without going full creep
The new big cheese at the Mozzarella Foundation wasted no time signalling a shift as soon as a new chief took the keys of the executive drinks cabinet.