OpenAI has admitted its shiny new GPT-5.6 models can nuke files. It insisted such incidents are rare and should be treated as “honest mistakes” and we guess everyone should have a good laugh about it ...

Samsung-based DDR4 and DDR5 memory prices are climbing again, with older DDR4 now taking the nastier hit. Memory module prices are rising again as the so-called RAMpocalypse continues to push up DRAM ...

Unconventional AI reckons ordinary chips are too thirsty, so it wants to rebuild AI computing from the floorboards up. According to TechCrunch Unconventional AI boss Naveen Rao, formerly Databricks ...

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is finding out that AI has wrecked its old supplier-bullying routine. After years of making component makers dance for its margins, Job’s Mob yesterday had to admit that it ...

AMD’s Zen 5 looked efficient, but weak demand and a dodgy RDSEED bug have taken the shine off. For those with long memories, AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series arrived in 2024, promising strong efficiency and ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX showed investors a skinny AI handset prototype while insisting that he is not building a phone. The rocket outfit and AI circus reportedly showed the prototype to investors and ...

GlobalData reckons autonomous AI agents are exposing the limits of traditional graphical user interfaces across software development, cloud operations, automation and digital infrastructure. Many AI ...

Soaring memory prices are set to kill the budget PC, and smartphones are next for the chop. Beancounters at the analyst outfit Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken another battering after the Justice Department released files detailing his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. In a February town hall with Gates Foundation staff, ...

Samsung Electronics shares fell sharply after investors concluded that record AI chip profits were not enough to calm oversupply jitters. According to the Financial Times Samsung Electronics shares ...

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s over-hyped Hide My Email feature appears to have been caught sharing users’ real addresses to the internet. Hide My Email is meant to create disposable addresses so users ...

One of the nastier bottlenecks in agentic AI is the KV cache, a huge temporary log used to build context while queries run. A lot of that data sits in HBM, but capacity demands in AI clusters are ...