xAI breaks records with ‘Colossus’ AI training system

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26.11.2025

Elon Musk’s xAI has unveiled its record-breaking AI training system, dubbed ‘Colossus’. Musk revealed that the xAI team had successfully brought the Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online after a 122-day process. Not content with its existing capabilities, Musk stated, “over the next couple of months, it will double in...

X and xAI sue Apple and OpenAI over AI monopoly claims

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18.11.2025

Elon Musk’s X and xAI are taking on Apple and OpenAI, accusing the tech giants of an AI monopoly to crush their competition. A lawsuit by the companies filed in a Texas federal court claims...

xAI secures Dell Technologies and Super Micro support for supercomputer project

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15.11.2025

Elon Musk’s startup, xAI, has just announced that it will rely on Dell and Super Micro for server racks to support its gigantic supercomputer project. Musk announced this collaboration on his social media platform, X,...

OpenAI’s latest model can summarise those tl;dr books

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14.11.2025

OpenAI has unveiled a new model that tests scalable alignment techniques by summarising those tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) books. The model works by first summarising small sections of a book before summarising those summaries...

Sam Altman: AI will cause job losses and national security threats

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31.10.2025

In the halls of power in Washington, OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, warned of total job losses from AI and how national security is being rewritten. Altman positions OpenAI as not just a participant, but as...

Paul O’Sullivan, Salesforce: Transforming work in the GenAI era

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30.10.2025

In the wake of the generative AI (GenAI) revolution, UK businesses find themselves at a crossroads between unprecedented opportunities and inherent challenges. Paul O’Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Solution Engineering (UKI) at Salesforce, sheds light...

Apple loses key AI leader to Meta

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25.10.2025

Apple is nursing a fresh wound this week after losing one of its most crucial AI leaders to Meta. Ruoming Pang, the executive who oversaw Apple Intelligence, has jumped ship to join Meta’s new Superintelligence...

Q&A: Felipe Chies, Amazon Web Services: Democratising ML

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22.10.2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leader in public cloud infrastructure now has more than 200 fully featured services, including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented...

The hidden climate cost of AI: How tech giants are struggling to go green

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19.10.2025

As AI takes centre stage in Silicon Valley, an inconvenient truth is emerging behind the scenes: AI has a massive carbon footprint. Tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon have made bold commitments to slash...

From punch cards to mind control: Human-computer interactions

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18.10.2025

The way we interact with our computers and smart devices is very different from previous years. Over the decades, human-computer interfaces have transformed, progressing from simple cardboard punch cards to keyboards and mice, and now...