Intel wants cheap laptops to stop looking cheap
Intel has shown off Project Firefly, a plan to make budget Wildcat Lake notebooks feel…
Intel calls in Cadence for 14A rescue act
Intel has dragged Cadence deeper into its 14A plans to speed up development and optimisation…
Anthropic lets the scary AI out
Anthropic has shoved its Mythos-class AI into public view, but wrapped it in enough guardrails to annoy the grown-ups. Claude Fable 5 is the public version of the same Mythos…
Memory prices murder the cheap PCs and phones
Soaring memory prices are set to kill the budget PC, and smartphones are next for…
OpenAI eyes a token price cuts
OpenAI is looking at slashing token prices, because enterprise customers as part of a cunning…
Anthropic lets the scary AI out
Anthropic has shoved its Mythos-class AI into public view, but wrapped it in enough guardrails…
Microsoft says it gets why people boo AI
College graduates have started booing AI-peddling commencement speakers, and the software king of the world…
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News
Memory prices murder the cheap PCs and phones
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…
OpenAI eyes a token price cuts
OpenAI is looking at slashing token prices, because enterprise customers as part of a cunning…
Anthropic lets the scary AI out
Anthropic has shoved its Mythos-class AI into public view, but wrapped it in enough guardrails…
Graphics
AMD swats FSR rumour
AMD’s Frank Azor has moved quickly to squash claims that FSR 4.1 has been binned…
AMD had to rebuild 5800X3D comeback
AMD reintroduced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D at Computex 2026, more than four years after the…
Zen 5’s random-number ghosts haunt AMD
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,…
Mobiles
Meta deletes creepy function from its glasses app
Meta has ripped face-recognition code from its AI app after the tech press found NameTag lurking inside the software. Wired reported last Thursday that Meta had embedded large chunks of…
Apple’s “AI miracle” propped up by Google and Nvidia
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has built an AI stack so independent it needs Google,…
Siri reboot carries Apple’s AI hopes
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PC Hardware
Intel wants cheap laptops to stop looking cheap
Intel has shown off Project Firefly, a plan to make budget Wildcat Lake notebooks feel…
Intel calls in Cadence for 14A rescue act
Intel has dragged Cadence deeper into its 14A plans to speed up development and optimisation…
Memory prices murder the cheap PCs and phones
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…
AI
OpenAI eyes a token price cuts
OpenAI is looking at slashing token prices, because enterprise customers as part of a cunning plan to take out Anthropic. According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI expects Anthropic to…
Anthropic lets the scary AI out
Anthropic has shoved its Mythos-class AI into public view, but wrapped it in enough guardrails…
Microsoft says it gets why people boo AI
College graduates have started booing AI-peddling commencement speakers, and the software king of the world…
Gaming
Microsoft says Xbox exclusives will be a case-by-case mess
Microsoft executive Matt Booty said future Xbox exclusivity will be decided “case-by-case”, after the Xbox…
Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase 2026 brings back exclusives, Halo: Campaign Evolved, and more games
Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase 2026 was packed with sequels, returning franchises, and a surprisingly strong…
Sharma says the Xbox money pit is bare
Xbox’s new boss has told staff the numbers are pants and the spending binge cannot carry on. Microsoft Gaming chief executive Asha Sharma, about 100 days into the job, gave…
Automotive
Trump forcing Telsa towards Intel
The Trump administration is leaning on Tesla to shift AI6.5 chip production from TSMC to Intel’s Arizona fabs. After taking a stake in Intel, US President Donald Trump’s administration seems…
CATL cranks the charging hype
At a 90-minute Beijing event ahead of the Beijing Auto Show, the Chinese battery giant…
Iran war is killing petrol cars
One of the unintended consequences of the US-Israel war against Iran is that it is…
Data center
New York puts AI data centres on notice
New York lawmakers have imposed a one-year pause on large data centres as public patience…
Ireland tells data centre giants to bring their own juice
Big tech has built so many data centres in Ireland that the sector now uses…
AI gold rush wakes up industrial dinosaurs
The AI boom has turned dull industrial relics into market darlings as data centres gulp power, steel and cooling kit. FT research found more than 200 listed industrial, utility and…
Smart devices
Meta deletes creepy function from its glasses app
Meta has ripped face-recognition code from its AI app after the tech press found NameTag lurking inside the software. Wired reported last Thursday that Meta had embedded large chunks of…
Meta’s spy specs get a garage mod
Meta’s Ray-Ban privacy light has become a $100 garage job for people who fancy recording…
Meta face goggles get creepier
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says Meta has stuffed facial recognition code into millions of surveillance…
Network
Foxconn and Chipzilla chase AI racks
According to the Wall Street Journal, Foxconn and Intel are teaming up to develop artificial…
Russian satellites stalk ICEYE spysat
Four Russian military satellites have sidled into the orbital lane of an ICEYE radar bird…
Security policy sprawl gets a kicking
The network security industry topped $7 billion in 1Q 2026 as firms tried to stop AI agents making a mess. According to beancounters at the Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide network…