
Dell kills XPS, unveils pricey premium laptops
New flagship kit packs Copilot, RTX power and sky-high prices
Grey Box Shifter, Dell has finally stuck a fork in its long-running XPS line and wheeled out the Dell Premium 14 and 16, the new laptops feature Intel's Core Ultra 200H series chips and a full dose of AI fluff from Windows 11.

OpenAI leaves Microsoft's Copilot stuck in the slow lane
Corporates don't want Copilot
Software King of the World, Microsoft is finding out the hard way that even a decades-long grip on the enterprise world does not mean workers will touch its AI with a bargepole.

GitHub adds AI price sting
Copilot fans discover metered billing is the new paywall
GitHub’s latest attempt to squeeze a few more bob from its users involves slapping monthly caps on high-powered AI features unless you’re willing to cough up extra.

OpenAI boss says vibe coding has sucked the fun out of dev work
Human engineers stuck doing the boring bits
OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman [pictured] reckons AI-driven software development has turned human coders into overqualified Q&As.

Microsoft stuffs Windows 11 with AI
Windows 11 getting more AI tools than you can poke a stick at
The Software King of the World, Microsoft is flooding Windows 11 with new AI tools but only Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips can run them, with Intel and AMD hardware coming later.

Microsoft’s copilot is unpopular
Vole's AI dreams tun to nightmares
Software King of the World, Microsoft’s big AI push is falling flat, with its Copilot assistant stuck at 20 million users a week while ChatGPT soars past 400 million. Despite stuffing Copilot into Windows, slapping a dedicated key on keyboards, and burning billions, the software giant cannot get punters to care.

Vole’s top trio roasted by its own bot
AI cracks jokes as Microsoft marks half a century
The Software King of the World Microsoft celebrated its 50th birthday by wheeling out all three of its CEOs for a bit of self-inflicted ridicule—with help from its AI lapdog, Copilot.

Nearly a third of AI chatbots share data
Google Gemini does the most evil
AI chatbots are harvesting user data at an alarming rate, with 30 per cent of them handing it over to third parties, including data brokers.

AI, big data and cloud dominate hiring trends
GlobalData data report
According to the latest beancounters at GlobalData, the global job market experienced a 1.4 per cent year-over-year (YoY) growth in 2024, with AI, big data, and cloud computing emerging as key drivers of hiring trends.

Vole rebrands its Copilot for businesses
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Software King of the World, Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, complete with the ability to use AI agents.