Pocket-sized box promises to run 120 billion parameter models

Tiiny AI reckons it has cracked the code for shoving an AI supercomputer into a device so small it could vanish into your jacket lining.

Microsoft's default Calibri is too "woke"

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tightened his grip on the culture war by ordering diplomats to ditch Calibri typefaces for Times New Roman, apparently unaware that the venerable serif has spent decades carrying some of the most “woke” books ever printed.

Prime minister shrugs off the mess as kids flaunt their workarounds

Australia’s under-16 social media ban had barely landed before the country’s feeds filled with teenagers loudly proving they could dodge it, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to defend the scheme as fair dinkum.

Lip-Bu Tan’s investment web puts Troubled Chipzilla in an awkward spotlight

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief Lip-Bu Tan is under fire as revelations pile up about deals that seem to bulk up his personal fortune. At the same time, he presides over a company that Washington wants to drag back to industrial prominence.

GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets

Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.

Software giant scrambles to stay visible in the chatbot stampede

Adobe is stuffing three of its big-name apps into ChatGPT as it hustles to keep pace with a swelling mob of firms hitching themselves to the chatbot.

Rising bill for AI data centres spooks market

Oracle opened its books with a thud as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street fretted about the size of its cheques for AI-driven data centre expansion.

Old lithography gear raises eyebrows over quantum and military links

ASML is copping flak in the Netherlands after reports that the chipmaking darling quietly sold hardware to a Chinese defence firm with deep party ties.

Yield snags and Qualcomm deals keep the chip from travelling far

Samsung is still wrestling with ropey yields on its next-generation Exynos 2600, which means the silicon may only appear in South Korea and only in the non-Ultra Galaxy S26 models.

May juggle two Dimensity 9600 variants

MediaTek’s lone flagship Dimensity 9600 for 2026 is shaping up to be a costly beast as the Taiwanese fabless outfit wrestles with soaring 2nm wafer prices and rumours of switching to a dual-chipset strategy.