Nvidia and AMD crank up AI chip war
Both sides rejigging their offerings
Nvidia and AMD are frantically revising their next-gen AI designs in an effort to out-muscle each other, with power budgets and memory bandwidth figures spiralling upwards.
Berners-Lee says the web has gone off the rails
Inventor pushes for user-owned data and a CERN-style AI project
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee reckons the internet is in a mess, hijacked by social media platforms that turned people into products rather than customers.
TD SYNNEX insists AI will save the channel
Distributor claims partners must blend hype with “resilient frameworks”
TD SYNNEX reckons artificial intelligence is the cure for everything from talent shortages to macroeconomic malaise.
Chinese government tells firms to bin Nvidia AI chips
Beijing blocks RTX Pro 6000
China has told some of its biggest tech outfits, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to stop messing about with Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 chips.
Peter Thiel warns Silicon Valley to beware the antichrist
Billionaire tech guru says unchecked progress may summon apocalypse
Peter Thiel who once made billions betting on technology now wants everyone to think a bit harder about a literal biblical Armageddon and the Antichrist.
AI doctors hate women and minorities
Bias baked into medical models
Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.
Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs
Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).
AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
Hopes devs finally look at its software stack
AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.
Google doing AI evil
Contractors sacked amid anger over pay and working conditions
While most companies are flinging cash and staff at AI, Google, has been firing the workers keeping its Gemini and AI Overviews systems afloat.
AI guts entry-level Indian outsourcing
India’s hiring pyramid smashed
Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys created empires by piling armies of junior staff into a vast hiring pyramid.
