Shareholders told that the long-promised billions may never arrive

Napster stunned its faithful when an online shareholder meeting on 20 November revealed that the massive investor it had been boasting about since January was unlikely to deliver the cash.

Long-distance quantum links could work by 2030

Boffins working at IBM and Cisco reckon they can link quantum computers over serious distances, and they want to show it is doable before the end of 2030.

One-gigawatt Claude commitment shows how frantic the AI gold rush has become

Nvidia has finally smoked a peace pipe with Anthropic after years of sniping, proving that the AI boom is now so ravenous it can turn rivals into drinking buddies.

Judge bins antitrust bid to break up Facebook parent

A federal judge has tossed the latest swipe from the Federal Trade Commission at Meta, leaving the social networking giant looking rather smug.

Long-time believer wanders toward Alphabet

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has just done the unthinkable and taken a $4.3 billion bite out of Alphabet while casually trimming its once worshipful stake in the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple.

EU watchdogs reckon Google has been fiddling with news rankings again

Brussels is sharpening its knives for Alphabet with a fresh probe into how Google ranks news outlets in search results.

Fancy first dibs on AI silicon

Brown box shifter Amazon is standing next to the software King of the World, Microsoft, in cheering new US laws that would clip Nvidia’s exports to China.

ChromeOS merger suggests Google is noticing the PC market 

Chipmaker Qualcomm might have stuck its Snapdragon X series into Windows laptops, but now it's sniffing around Android too.

Suleyman says it’s time for Redmond to build superintelligence

Software king of the world, Microsoft, has decided it no longer wants to be shackled to OpenAI and is setting off on its own grand plan for superintelligence.

Inventor of the internet warns LLMs will stop people reading pages

The man who built the World Wide Web says generative AI is about to shove a crowbar into the internet’s multibillion-dollar advertising racket.